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“I think everybody’s just kind of annoyed by it,” said Kent Flake, the commissioner of streets in St. Louis, where crews began pre-treating the roads Friday morning ahead of an expected 6 inches of snow.

Flake, an 18-year veteran of city government, said he could not recall a St. Louis winter with more storms. All that snow and ice, he said, have left behind about three times as many potholes as normal.

In Kansas City, Missouri, where up to 5 inches of snow and sub-zero temperatures were expected, the National Weather Service urged people to stock up on bread and milk. “We have been through this drill before,” the agency wrote on Twitter. In Peoria, Illinois, where snow was possible Saturday into Sunday, the city sought nominees Friday for the “Golden Shovel Awards,” honoring residents “who are going above and beyond to keep the sidewalks clean.” And in the Minneapolis area, where the snowiest February on record had just ended, according to local news outlets, March began with more snow and frigid temperatures.

Even in places where weekend snow was unlikely, the forecast did not inspire much enthusiasm. In Chicago, forecasters warned of sub-zero wind chills early next week, cold enough to cause frostbite, and said spring-like weather was at least a couple weeks away.

The National Weather Service has issued winter storm watches or warnings for the Midwest to the West, including St. Louis; Kansas City; Wichita, Kansas; Denver; Cheyenne, Wyoming; and South Lake Tahoe, California. The service has also issued flood warnings along some of the rivers in the South; the waters of the Mississippi River are running especially high.

“It’s not that uncommon to have a storm tracking from the West Coast to the East Coast,” said Paul Walker, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather.

The storm is expected to make landfall on the West Coast on Friday night, Walker said. It will take until Sunday night to reach the East Coast, where it could bring a messy commute Monday morning. But he cautioned that there remained much uncertainty about the storm.

Before the front arrives, the New York metro area could wake up to snow and rain showers Saturday morning.

While New Yorkers are accustomed to late winter weather, snowy conditions last month in typically warmer states surprised residents.

In Los Angeles County, it snowed, oh so briefly, on Feb. 21 in Malibu, West Hollywood, Pasadena and Northridge, and the flakes mostly melted quickly. Los Angeles had not seen snow since January 1962. The silver lining of snow in California? The 6 to 10 feet that has fallen in the Sierra Nevada this winter has erased the drought conditions for most of California, Walker said, and so the state should not be as dry this summer, as the snowpack melts.

Hawaii had a midwinter storm that saw a 191-mph wind gust, 60-foot waves and snow on Maui. The snow may be the greatest accumulation seen at that low an elevation on Maui.

In the Southwest, Flagstaff, Arizona, received more than 30 inches during a storm in late February. The National Weather Service said that the Phoenix area had not had snow since 2015. The same storm that dumped nearly 3 feet in Flagstaff gave Las Vegas its first measurable snow in more than a decade.

This article originally appeared in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/us/snow-storm-california-maine.html" id="9e89717f-9821-3f3a-a798-7f2075654362">The New York Times</a>.

CHICAGO — Spring may be within sight, but as the calendar flipped to March, forecasters on Friday predicted a walloping weekend winter storm, with snow and icy rain expected to coat a 2,500-mile path from Northern California to southern Maine. Rain was also forecast to drench Southern California and much of the South, from Texas to Virginia.

Snow in Forecast for a 2,500-Mile Path From California to Maine

<h1>Rain was also forecast to drench Southern California and much of the South, from Texas to Virginia.</h1>

“I think everybody’s just kind of annoyed by it,” said Kent Flake, the commissioner of streets in St. Louis, where crews began treating the roads Friday morning ahead of an expected 6 inches of snow.

Flake, an 18-year veteran of city government, said he could not recall a St. Louis winter with more storms. All that snow and ice, he said, have left behind about three times as many potholes as usual.

But in California, the prospect of cold, wintry weather was met with a mix of wonder, worry and — in the mountains, where wet winters translate to great skiing and snowboarding — glee.

In Kansas City, Missouri, where up to 5 inches of snow and subzero temperatures were expected, the National Weather Service urged people to stock up on bread and milk. “We have been through this drill before,” the agency wrote on Twitter.

In Peoria, Illinois, where snow was possible Saturday into Sunday, the city sought nominees for the “Golden Shovel Awards,” honoring residents “who are going above and beyond to keep the sidewalks clean.” And in the Minneapolis area, where the snowiest February on record had just ended, according to local news outlets, March began with more snow and frigid temperatures.

Even in places where weekend snow was unlikely, the forecast did not inspire much enthusiasm. In Chicago, forecasters warned of subzero wind chills early next week, cold enough to cause frostbite.

Dan Parker, the public works director in Indianapolis, was not at all excited to see a forecast calling for another storm. “I don’t think what went through my mind could be quoted in The New York Times,” said Parker, whose overtime budget has been stretched and whose road crews have only had one weekend off since early January.

Parker said workers were continuing to patch potholes, which pocked the city’s 8,400 lane-miles of street after a brutal cycle of freezing and thawing. By Saturday night, he said, it would be time to treat the roads for the coming storm.

The weather comes during a winter of extremes. In late January, Chicago broke a record for lowest maximum daily temperature at minus 10 degrees, busting its record of minus 3 degrees. The city also hit a record daily low at minus 23 degrees.

A few days later, in early February, Washington broke a 28-year record when highs reached 70 degrees, a balmy temperature more common to South Texas or Los Angeles.

Last month, though, was the first February on record that downtown Los Angeles did not reach 70 degrees, a milestone marked by light grousing from Angelenos. But when it snowed in the city last week, it prompted a flurry of delighted social media posts. And when the Bay Area got a dusting this month, residents of the region got out their sleds.

According to climate experts, increasing weather extremes are in keeping with broader predictions of climate change. Severe weather — be it precipitation or cold — worries observers in the Golden State, where every storm brings the risk of mudslides in fire-scarred communities and flooding.

Daniel Swain, a California climate scientist, said climate change is making extreme swings between warm weather and cold weather, drought and rain, the new normal.

“Things are changing faster than I think has been apparent to a lot of people,” he said. “It seems incremental until it doesn’t.”

In the Pacific Northwest, where in some places February was the snowiest month on record, the last leftover piles of gray, ice-hardened snow had just about disappeared Friday. The sun was shining in Seattle. People sighed and stripped to short-sleeved tees.

But, it turned out, winter was far from over. In parts of Oregon, the governor declared an emergency in 10 counties this week as snow and ice descended. The forecast for much of Oregon and Washington in coming days calls for a mix: It will be sunny in places, but continue to be colder than average, so some stubborn slush piles could last.

Across the country in southern New England, back-to-back storms were forecast for the weekend. A low-pressure system was expected to move in on Saturday morning, bringing several inches of snow to parts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Snow in forecast for a 2,500-mile path from california to maine

CHICAGO — Spring may be within sight, but as the calendar flipped to March, forecasters on Friday predicted a walloping storm this weekend, with snow and icy rain expected to coat a 2,500-mile path from Northern California to southern Maine.

Snow in forecast for a 2,500-mile path from California to Maine

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