But the month’s tally so far does have the promise of posting a new high for snowfall in February if it continues on this pace.

The latest round of snow came Thursday, with another 2 inches of new white stuff in the Iron Mountain area.

Add that to the 9 inches recorded Tuesday into early Wednesday morning at the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Waste Water Treatment Plant and the area has almost a solid foot of new snow to play in this weekend.

Though a respectable total, the local snowfall pales in comparison to what other parts of the Upper Peninsula are digging out from, said meteorologist Matt Zika of the National Weather Service office in the Marquette area.

CALM AFTER THE storm: The sun sets over a well-plowed Millie Hill Estates Drive in Iron Mountain on Wednesday, after a system dumped about 9 inches of snow on the area. (Theresa Proudfit/Daily News photo)

Between 25 and 30 inches of snow were recorded in the Huron Highlands and north of Negaunee on Tuesday, he said. The NWS office in Negaunee Township reported 25.6 inches for the two days, the second-highest two-day snowfall for February, behind only 26.4 inches Feb. 2-3, 1983.

Zika said most of the southernmost regions of the U.P. had totals in the 10- to 15-inch range.

“What’s considered the ‘banana belt,’ they did very well for this storm,” Zika said.

To put it all into perspective, here are some of the significant numbers on snowfall in the Iron Mountain-Kingsford area:

9 — Inches of snow that fell Tuesday into Wednesday morning.

10.8 — Inches of snow in an average February in the area.

26.75 — Inches of snow received so far this month at the waste water treatment plant, besting the previous high for this century of 24.9 inches in February 2004. However, it must top …

36.8 — Inches of snow in February 1962 to post a new snowfall record for the month. With this month only half over, that record could be poised to fall if 11 inches of new snow does over the next two weeks.

51.45 — Total amount of snow so far for 2018-19.

61.5 — Inches of snow that falls in an average winter in Iron Mountain-Kingsford area.

128.5 — Season record for the area, in 1938-39.