There appears to be a pause of the Ottawa area's freeze-melt cycle it experienced most of this month. There are no temperatures above 0 C in the forecast for Ottawa this week. Monday is pretty much an average late-January day with a high of -5 C under cloudy skies. The overnight low is -10 C.Tuesday and Wednesday should get as high as -8 C in the day with a chance of flurries. Thursday, Feb. 1, is looking like the warmest of the week as far as the forecast can tell with a daytime high of 0 C.

Source: CBC News January 29, 2018 10:41 UTC