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Cooler temperatures, rain and snow predicted as the weekend approaches

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Scattered areas of traffic congestion reported this morning

<p>Up, up, up they go.</p><p>Gas prices continued to ascend overnight &#8212; locally, the average gas price is up 13 cents locally.</p><p>AAA Mid-Atlantic provided the following data for today&#8217;s average gas prices:</p><p>&#8226; Wilkes-Barre area gas average at $2.05 up 3 cents overnight and up 13 cents in the last week.</p><p>&#8226; Pennsylvania gas average at $2.04 today, up 2 cents overnight and up 10 cents in the last week.</p><p>&#8226; National gas average at $1.96 today, up a penny overnight, up 14 in the last week.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Travis Kellar</p><p>tkellar@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div>

Gas prices continued to rise overnight