Coeur d’Alene’s current three-week stretch of less than an inch of snow broke a 93-year-old record.

Climatologist Cliff Harris said since nearly nine inches of snow fell here on Jan. 6 — the most in a single day in three years — snow sightings have become rare.

Just three-tenths of an inch of snow has fallen from Jan. 7 to Jan. 28, well under the previous low mark of 2.3 inches for that time frame set in 1929.

On Jan. 6, Coeur d’Alene had 17 inches of snow on the ground. It’s down to about an inch.

The lack of snow for this time of year is “pretty unusual,” Harris said.

“The weather has done an about-face on us,” he said Friday.

The area could get a few inches of snow on Sunday and might receive a few dustings next week.

“It’s not going to be anything to write home about,” Harris said.

So strange is this weather, he’s no longer confident his preseason prediction of 83 inches of snow will come to be, though he said he saw this coming.

“I knew we‘d have en extended period of dry, snowless weather,” he said.

Ski resorts aren’t seeing much snow, either.

Lookout Pass, Silver Mountain Resort and Schweitzer Mountain Resort all reported receiving zero snow in that last three days.

“They need some fresh powder,” Harris said.

He said the winter storms pushed off to the east, where a blizzard was about to battered Boston, New York and Philadelphia.

The reason North Idaho is no longer getting snow is a high-pressure ridge that has settled in.

“It’s like a brick wall,” Harris said. “We need something to break this apart.

It’s going to get colder.

For the next 10 days, the highs should be in the 20s and the lows in the teens.