Cold snap to linger through mid-week The cold weather isn't going anywhere yet. It will linger throughout the next week. Jonathan Finch, meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Dodge City, said a deep trough of low pressure out of Canada is to blame for the cold weather. The trough is moving cold air across the southern part of Canada, Finch said. The center of the cold air is north, but the southern end of it is hitting the area. Finch said typically when this happens the winds are moving easterly and northeasterly up slope, so the cold air moves up slope and becomes saturated and a lot of the time the clouds are low, which is why earlier in the week there were snow flurries — the moisture is just deep enough to get very light now.