By STEVE EIGHINGER Staff Writer | 217-221-3377 seighinger@whig.com | @StevieDirtWHIG

QUINCY -- Holy cow, it's been cold outside.

Relief from the recent bitterly cold temperatures should arrive by the weekend, but don't expect conditions in West-Central Illinois and Northeast Missouri to resemble anything close to balmy.

Most of Wednesday's recorded temperatures danced around the zero mark. At some point this weekend, the thermometer should creep above the freezing level -- hardly a cause for celebration, but less of a chance for frostbite.

Julie Kramer, a Quincy native who now lives in Costa Mesa, Calif., has been in town visiting family and friends.

"I'm cold to the bone," Kramer said.

Kramer said the best way for her to handle the frigid conditions she is no longer used to is to do some California dreamin'.

"It was 82 there on Tuesday and in the 70s on Wednesday," she was happy to report.

Most residents seem to be dealing with the cold in a good-natured fashion.

Judi Walden of Quincy said her ideal way to survive Mother Nature turning a cold shoulder is to stay in "heavy jammies all day and make warm comfort food."

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