Friday, one of several towns in that state, Connecticut and Massachusetts to be buried under more than a foot of snow -- with much more, potentially, on the way.
And Mr. Menino said the city's public-works department was at the ready with 34, 000 tons of salt and more than 600 pieces of snow-removal equipment.
Many roads have been blocked or have slow-moving traffic after more snow fell across the county.
"Everything can and should be done" to keep schools open during the wintry weather, Education Secretary Michael Gove said - as snow closed more than 5, 000 schools across the UK on Monday.
Normally, visitors to this ski resort seek nothing more dynamic than pumping knee-deep powder snow or perhaps enjoying a knees-up in one of Davos's nightclubs.
Skis were widely utilized in Central Asia and Europe, while snowshoes were common in the New World - probably because snow was more compact and less soft in the Old World, theorizes Huntford.
As dawn broke, however, there was agitation throughout the county as word quickly spread of the discovery of a trail of hoof prints (some say cloven), two inches wide and about eight inches apart in the snow stretched in a more-or-less straight line for over a hundred miles.
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To the west are the saw-edges of glacier-encrusted rock and ice, serrated by more than 30 jagged peaks heavy with snow, the highest of which is 6, 768m-high Huascaran, the tallest mountain in the tropics.
The storm is arriving just after the 35th anniversary of the blizzard of 1978, which paralyzed New England with more than 2 feet of snow and hurricane-force winds from Feb. 5-7.
And, even in the hours leading up to the equinox, more light snow has been settling in north-east England and eastern Scotland, adding to large amounts of up to 10cm which hit the regions on Tuesday.
"Now snow-holing has become a more recreational activity, " he says.
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The Met Office has issued yellow warnings advising people to "be aware" of more snow in parts of Wales, south-west England, north-west England, and eastern and north-eastern Scotland on Wednesday evening.
Forecasters say they expect 10-20cm (4-8in) of snow to fall during Monday in the "amber" areas - and even more on higher ground, with blizzard conditions in some areas.
It also makes street sweepers, backhoes, and all that snow-clearing equipment the Northeast needed more of last winter.
Set in a steeply serrated stretch of southwestern Colorado's San Juan range, it gets 400 inches of snow a year--33% more than most Colorado resorts.
If you need a vehicle for extensive driving in deep snow, Cox recommends one of the more car-like SUVs, called crossovers.
As the cleanup continued, Mr. Cuomo urged New Yorkers to stay indoors to allow snow-removal and power-restoration crews to more effectively do their jobs.
The mall was in the bull's-eye of a weekend blizzard that dumped 30 inches or more of snow across eastern Long Island, followed by a Monday rainstorm.
Whiteout conditions caused by snow arriving off Lake Erie caused at least three more pileups -- one involving 52 cars, another with 25 vehicles, and a third, in which 23 motorists collided.
More snow is expected over the weekend and a "bitterly cold south-easterly wind" will remain, the Met Office added.
The wide-ranging storm buried parts of the Midwest under more than a foot of snow, weakening as it moved east but still carpeting lawns and fields in a fresh layer of white.
"It means there is more light penetrating through the ice - that depends to a high degree on the snow cover but once it has melted the light can get through, " Dr Gerland said.
Temperatures fell to -11C (12F) in parts of Somerset overnight, but no more snow fell.
In Wales, more than 120 schools closed - mostly in the south Wales valleys - and a new snow warning has been issued for south east Wales.
More snow will fall on Sunday, particularly in Northern Ireland, western Scotland and north-west England.
About 10, 000 customers remained without power Saturday in Long Island, the worst-hit part of New York state, where some areas got more than 30 inches of snow.
By mid-November, the central and northern regions will be covered with snow, making road transport even more difficult.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo dispatched more than 410 plow trucks to hard-hit Suffolk County, parts of which were mugged by nearly three feet of snow.
In his statement, he told MPs that the government would investigate whether a "step-change" in the UK's climate means more money must be spent on equipment to deal with heavy snow.
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