COEUR d'ALENE — Cliff Harris says even when it was sunny and 40 degrees in recent weeks, he warned people: Winter isn't over. Don't have your snow tires removed. Keep the plastic over windows. Leave the covers over outside faucets.

Too many, the Coeur d'Alene climatologist said, didn't listen. They thought it was an early spring.

But late Tuesday and early Wednesday, it snowed just more than an inch and the low temperatures plunged to single digits.

That created icy road conditions that led to multiple accidents.

"It's a second winter," Harris said Friday.

The temperature dropped to zero early Friday, which is the second-coldest on record for Feb. 24, dating back 101 years to 1922, when it dipped to negative 6 degrees.

That didn't keep people from walking their dogs or going for runs Friday morning.

Harris said he expects it to snow this weekend, and that could continue into next week. He said highs should return to the mid-30s, but he expects conditions to remain cold and wet into early March.

"Winter isn't over," Harris said.

An earlier version of this story included an incorrect record date.