LEWISTON – Getting tired of the white stuff? Get ready for about 10 more inches over the course of the coming days – pushing the region’s precipitation total close to the 100-inch mark by the end of the week.

“We’ve got a pretty active pattern moving our way with two to three coastal storms moving our way,” said John Cannon, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Cannon said about 4 inches of snow blanketed the region on Sunday afternoon, bringing the overall total for the season to about 90 inches.

Local and state authorities are urging motorists to slow down when it comes to driving in bad weather. In Auburn alone, police handled 14 accidents throughout the afternoon on Sunday and officers were bracing for more overnight as temperatures dropped and roads turned icy.

“They’re still doing the same speeds they would if the roads were dry,” said Auburn police Sgt. Gary Boulet, warning drivers to slow down on slick roads.

Sgt. Joe Mills, of the Maine State Police, agreed. He added that the most common thing that officers hear at a crash site from motorists is that they were doing the speed limit.

But what drivers fail to comprehend, he added, is that “in adverse conditions, traveling too fast can mean traveling the speed limit.”

Boulet said motorists should be especially cautious when approaching intersections – which seemed to be where the majority of Sunday’s mishaps occurred. One accident involved a car that slid off the road down a 20-foot embankment onto Lake Auburn. The car did not crash through the ice, according to Boulet, and no one was injured.

And while some may consider the constant barrage of snow to be a cumbersome nuisance compared to past few winters – Cannon points out that Maine is merely getting back to normal when it comes to winter weather. Although this year’s snow accumulation is above normal, temperatures for the region are actually closer to normal than in past couple years when several warm days dotted the winter months.