(Bloomberg) -- Meteorological spring will start March 1, so thisseems as good a time as any to run a few numbers as we head intoFebruary’s final week.

As of midnight Monday, Boston had received 99.9 inches (8.3 feetor 2.5 meters) of snow at Logan International Airport,the National Weather Service said. You almost want itto snow one more time just to get over the 100-inchbarrier (OK, at least I do).

Boston is still shy of its all-time high of 107.6 inches set in1995-1996. Given that the city has a history of snow aslate as May, there’s still plenty of opportunity to crack thatrecord.

While Boston has grabbed many of the winter misery headlinesthis season, there has been enough pain to go around.

In November, though it wasn’t quite winter yet,lake-effect snow buried the Buffalo, New York, area, withat least one location getting 88 inches in the course of aweek.

Then there is Marquette, Michigan, which has had 151.6 inches sofar this season. They’ve had their share of lake-effect blizzards,too.

The thing about this winter is that it hasn’t beenall snow, ice and cold. In the contiguous 48 states, the lastmonth of 2014 was the second-warmest December in records going backto 1895, while the first month of 2015 came in as the 24th-warmestJanuary, according to the National Climatic Data Center inAsheville, North Carolina.

NYC Cold

Since then, things have gotten plenty colder.

Through Feb. 22, New York’s Central Park posted 20 days withbelow-normal average temperatures. Chicago had 18 of 22 daysbelow-normal and Houston split with 11 below and 11 above.

“Wow, this has got to be the most volatile we have witnessedyet,” said Teri Viswanath, director of commodity strategy at BNPParibas SA in New York. “Now it appears that we’re going to have avery cold February and March.

Winter’s mild center was enough to help drop natural gas futuresbelow $3 per million British thermal units in New York, yet theslide in temperatures since may bring about a correction as moregas gets burned to keep homes warm, she said. As of Monday, gas haddeclined 26% since the start of the heating season in November.

The chill across much of the U.S. won’t only mean more demandfor the fuel, it will also cause some land-based gas wells tofreeze, crimping production.

‘‘The market hasn’t caught up yet,” Viswanath said.

Warmer West

In the western U.S., the story all winter long has been theopposite that of the East.

Warmer weather has been bad news for a region struggling withdrought. The higher temperatures have meant more rainthan snow in the mountains where a heavy snowpack is keyto providing water later in the year.

There are some snow sensors in the mountains of Oregonthat have nothing to measure, Kathie Dello, deputy director of theOregon Climate Service, said on a conference call last week. Shelamented that there isn’t a way to shipBoston’s snow west.

As part of her presentation, she showed photos of brown dirt atthe top of the Hoodoo Butte ski area.

“Never give up, never say die,” Hoodoo Ski & Recreation saidon its Facebook page earlier this month. “Keep prayingfor snow.”

The current maximum depth is 1.3 inches, according to itswebsite. A year ago it was 67.1 inches,

Across most of Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona,drought conditions are expected to persist or worsen, according tothe U.S. Climate Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

By June, the parts of Oregon that aren’t already parched bydrought may get there, along with a large part of Washington, theclimate center said in its seasonal outlook last week.

Meanwhile, in Boston there is a 30% chanceof snow Tuesday night. Even a dusting would be enough toput the city over the 100-inch mark.

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