Better get used to it.

That’s the sad message of the forecast shared by meteorologists at the Wakefield Weather Station on Monday.

It’s cold and will stay that way. And the snow you see on the ground Tuesday morning isn’t going anywhere, which just means it’s going to feel even colder than the already abnormally bone-chilling temperatures reflect.

“The weather pattern that we have seems to be stuck,” National Weather Service meteorologist Mike Rusnak said Monday morning. “These are some of the coldest temperatures we have seen in years.”

Painting an even bleaker picture, he added: “Anything can happen in the winter.”

All of Virginia was under a winter storm warning on Monday, with Hampton Roads’ warning extending from 7 p.m. Monday to noon on Tuesday. Depending on one’s location, Rusnak said, snowfall totals in Hampton Roads could range up to six inches or more.

“We’ll get a burst of heavy snow this evening,” he said, with accumulation expected to vary by location. “A distance of five miles could make a big difference.”

As the storm moved through the area, temperatures were expected to climb to around freezing, turning snow to sleet and freezing rain after midnight, he said. The weather service expected all precipitation to be done by about noon on Tuesday.

But the snow might not be the worst of what Suffolk can expect this week.

The area can expect another shot of arctic air on Thursday and Friday, and low temperatures are expected to plunge into single digits, Rusnak said.

“Temperatures won’t get out of the 20s on Thursday and Friday,” and they’re expected to barely get to freezing in the days before that, so whatever snow and ice fell in Monday’s storm is likely to remain on the ground all week. With the addition of the expected wind to the mix, wind chill temperatures are expected to be bitterly cold.

Rusnak said this season’s repeated blasts of arctic air have dropped the average temperatures measured at the weather’s service’s Norfolk International Airport monitoring station by 5 degrees below normal for the year.

Unfortunately, there’s no real end in sight for the unusually cold temperatures — “not for the next seven to 10 days, at least,” Rusnak said.

Hampton Roads’ lowest recorded temperature, recorded at the Norfolk airport on Jan. 21, 1985, was 3 degrees below zero. That same night, Virginia recorded its lowest temperature, a brisk 30-below, measured at the Mountain Lake Biological Station near Blacksburg.

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