Menino said the city's snow emergency and parking ban will be lifted at 9 a.m.
It is only six days until the MTV awards hit Belfast, on Sunday crews began building a huge stage at City Hall for Snow Patrol's concert on 6 November.
Ironically, the city's indoor snow centre, the Chill Factore, was closed due to the snow outside.
BBC: Schools and airports closed after heavy snow in England
The snow prompted city officials in the port city of Valdez to close the three local schools on Thursday and Friday, as a precaution against collapses.
Now, with extremely early snow already falling from coast to coast this year (New York City just broke its all-time snow record for October, for example) conditions are shaping up for another epic season.
The storm brought about a foot of snow to the city and could have been much worse, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Oklahoma City received a dusting of snow from a large storm system that has been moving eastward through the nation's midsection this week.
He urged residents to stay home, given that the new storm was expected to dump nearly a foot of new snow on the city.
Hundreds of soldiers are helping Kiev's citizens to dig out cars buried in snow and the city is struggling to get public transport moving again.
The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in.
Numerous accidents were reported in the area, and Mayor Sly James declared the emergency in an unwanted encore to a major snowstorm that dumped nearly a foot of snow on his city just five days earlier.
The snow socked the city's main airport, where more than 200 of 1, 500 flights had been canceled and other travelers faced average delays of more than 4 hours on Sunday night, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
It must be said that his powers of initiative, in this respect, are not great, and if he spent half as much time filling in job applications as he does wandering the city under feathery falls of snow, he would be earning serious money within days.
Police stopped vehicles going into Norwich city centre because of the heavy snow fall.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said all city streets would be cleared of snow by the end of Saturday.
At Nanshan Ski Village, a ski resort near the northern city of Harbin, they manufacture snow from wells deep underground.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he lifted the "weather emergency" on Wednesday, as salting crews and snow plows finished clearing city streets.
New York City, where 11 inches of snow fell in Central Park, saw just a few hundred customers without power, a Con Edison spokesman said.
More than half of Interstate 70 in Kansas and Kansas City International Airport were closed as snow fell up to two inches per hour in some areas.
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Since the 2011 blizzard that dumped 20 inches on Chicago, the nation's third-largest city has had it pretty easy snow-wise, with a relatively mild winter last year and a slow start this year.
"They just say that it might snow and the whole city shuts down, " said Sheri Sable, who was out walking her two dogs in light rain and marveled at how even the dog park she frequents failed to open at 7 a.m.
Maybe I'm just being a panicky New Englander, but when 2 to 3 feet of snow drops on your city so fast that you can practically hear the thump, I can't imagine how we'd get our streets and trolley tracks cleaned fast enough to avoid a day when it's better if everyone just stays at home, does some shoveling and watches "Buffy" seasons 1-4.
In Bridgeport, Connecticut, Mayor Bill Finch said the city had gotten some 30 inches of snow.
That winter there was a snow storm that ground the city to a halt.
Boston could up to 3 feet of snow, while New York City was expecting 10 to 12 inches.
About a foot of snow fell on New York City, which was "in great shape, " Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Boston could get more than 2 feet of snow, while New York City was expecting 10 to 12 inches.
Binmen in a Hertfordshire city are going to be issued with snow shoes to help them to work in icy conditions.
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