Just a few days after area schools had cancellations and delays due to below-zero temperatures, it jumped to nearly 50 degrees on Saturday.
Isabelle Mettam and Gabrielle Miske, two elementary students at Pottsville Area, said they enjoyed the day off during the week, but do not want to lose more vacation days in the spring.
"We usually watch movies," Mettam, a fifth-grade student, said while at the Fairlane Village mall on Sunday.
Miske, a seventh-grade student, said she has been walking outside more now that the temperatures are above freezing.
"I would rather it be warmer because we would lose another day of Easter vacation," she said.
Alexandra Kalinich, Mar Lin, said her husband and son were enjoying the warmer temperatures Sunday by hiking while she was at the mall.
"I hate the winter," she said. "It's messy and cold."
Ed Gulko, Pottsville, said he stayed inside when temperatures dipped earlier this week. He said he could not believe how warm it was over the weekend just days later.
"It's so nice out now," he said. "It's wonderful. I hope it stays this way."
That seems to be the case at least for the next few days, according to the National Weather Service.
"We can always get another (cold snap), but I don't see anything in the foreseeable future," Barry Lambert, a meteorologist at NWS at State College, said Sunday. "We will be well into the 40s for highs over the next two days, then there will be a gradual cool-down."
Lambert said there will be some rain showers tonight and there will be periods of light snow later in the week. Temperatures will be below normal during the weekend, but not as bitter as last week, he said.
"The thing that made the last episode cold and really memorable was the wind," he said. "The combined effect of the very cold air and wind chill probably made it seem colder ..."
While the last week's bitter cold might have had the lowest temperatures in recent memory, some will remember longer subzero stretches from a few decades ago, Lambert said.
"We broke some records, but it was not the coldest it has ever been," he said. "We have had other periods in the '70s, '80s and '90s with longer stretches. We have had broader and colder outbreaks in the United States before."