The cooler temperatures and cloudy weather might be here to stay at least for the next week.

Aside from Friday, daytime highs for the foreseeable future will barely reach double digits (somedays will be below) and there will be a chance of precipitation on most days.

Terri Lang, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said there is still hope for warmer weather in a few weeks.

"I think we will return to sunshine and warmer temperatures, just not quite yet," she said. "I don't want to write off the summer totally because it's sort of the nicest time of year when the bugs are gone, but the temperatures are still nice. I think we still have a hope for that perhaps in October."

Friday night's low is expected to reach the freezing mark for the first time in several months and Saturday could see some snow.

"What we have now is a big trough of low pressure over western Canada, jet stream dipping really far south, south of the border and so that puts us in the much colder air," Lang said. "It's been a lot wetter as well, I think a lot of places are getting a lot of precipitation that they didn't get for months in the summer but they're making up for it now... We went right from summer right into winter, we kind of skipped over the fall part."

Lang attributed the big-time cool off to the big upper ridge of high pressure over western Canada finally breaking down.