If you felt like the winter chill has stubbornly stuck around this May, you’re right.

“In the past three days, we’ve recorded some of the lowest temperatures since 1996 in the Lawrence area,” said Kris Sanders, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Topeka, said.

Since May 15, Lawrence lows reached into the 30s. The morning of May 17 was the coldest at 32 degrees, breaking the 2011 record of 37 degrees.

The cold is coming from a change in usual wind patterns. Generally, warmer winds come up from the south causing the spring-like temperatures we’re used to this time of year. But this year, “winds are coming out of the north and have been for the past week or so,” Sanders said.

It’s an atypical pattern, he said, but not unheard of.

The coming week will bring highs in the 70s and 80s and lows in the mid 60s, plus those May showers.