FILE - This Jan. 20, 2009 file photo shows people keeping warm near a steam vent on the National Mall in Washington prior to the start of then-President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration. It will be the first up or down fact check of a Barack Obama campaign pledge for his second term: Promised warmer Inauguration Day weather. Will he _ or Mother Nature _ deliver? It's looking like an uncomfortably close call _ the emphasis on the word uncomfortable for people who will be outside on what's predicted to be a downright chilly day. AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File FILE - This Jan. 20, 2009 file photo shows bundled-up members the San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus singing on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the start of the swearing-in ceremony for Barack Obama. Chart shows temperatures for January inaugurals FILE - This Jan. 20, 1961 black-and-white file photo showsPresident John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy walk outside the White House during inauguration ceremonies, just as the parade began. An 8-inch snowfall on the eve of John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961 left hundreds of cars marooned and thousands more abandoned. WASHINGTON (AP) - Consider it the first fact check of a Barack Obama campaign pledge for his second term: Will he, or Mother Nature, deliver on promised warmer Inauguration Day weather? It's shaping up as a close call. In September, while campaigning in Colorado, Obama was talking to a potential voter who mentioned he had been one of the hundreds of thousands of people outdoors at Obama's bone-chilling first inaugural in 2009, when the noontime temperature was 28 degrees. On average, the normal high is 43 degrees and the normal low is 28, but that's just around dawn. There have been 19 traditional January inaugurations and only two were colder. Ronald Reagan's second in 1985 was a frigid 7 with subzero wind chills and John F. Kennedy's in 1961 was a snow-covered 22. Then there was the general warming trend Washington had been stuck in. The city has gone a record 700-plus days since it had 2 inches or more of snow. An Arctic cold front looks to be racing toward the mid-Atlantic, so it will be cooler than normal on Monday, but probably not cooler than 2009, said Nikole Listemaa, a senior forecaster at the National Weather Service office in Sterling, Va., that oversees forecasts for the capital area. Look for highs around 40 degrees with noon temperatures in the mid- to upper 30s, Listemaa said Saturday. There's also a 30 percent chance of light snow showers for Monday. But the Arctic cold front won't arrive until Monday night into Tuesday, Listemaa added. There's one thing Washington's history shows. Kennedy found that out in his 1961 inauguration when 8 inches of snow fell overnight and crippled the city for what at that time was Washington's worst traffic jam.