A weather pattern that has brought conditions so comfortable for most of the summer that they seem like a fairy tale took another swing toward bliss Monday when nature opened a window to let in more cool air.

“Effectively, that’s exactly it,” National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Garcia said Monday. “We’ve had this quasi-permanent area of low pressure near Alaska that has stayed there all summer, and that has kept the really thick high pressure from getting in here. It has suppressed that area of warm air, as soon as there is any shift, there’s a window that opens for cold air.”

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