After another icy mess, snow is possible on Tuesday, and it looks like winter may stay around for awhile

What it will mean ultimately for snow totals is about as uncertain as the outcome of a rather significant football game that takes place Sunday night, but it appears that the region is in for a wintry couple of weeks.

Some snow is likely Tuesday into Tuesday night — with computer models suggesting the best chances for several inches are just to the south of the city.

Winter storms may affect the region Wednesday night into Thursday and next weekend, forecasters say; they are unlikely to appeal to snow purists, however, and may end up bringing more rain than snow.

It has been a while since the region had an unadulterated snowfall, something it certainly wasn’t getting Saturday night into Sunday morning.

Fittingly on Super Bowl weekend, the atmosphere evidently was poised to flip into replay mode.

For the second time in a week, freezing rain lacquered the region Saturday night, prompting PennDot to impose speed restrictions on major roads, including the Schuylkill and Vine Street Expressways; I-95, I-476′, and Routes 1, 30, 202, and 422.

What Mount Holly-based National Weather Service meteorologist Patrick O’Hara called a “low-impact” storm was due to end well before daybreak.

Groundhog Day II? The scenario was similar to how the atmosphere behaved Thursday morning. “It’s one of those times when it’s almost identical,” said Tom Kines, senior meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc.

This time around, however, neither schools nor a peak morning commute would be affected. In fact, the timing was fortuitous for those who were out Super Bowl grocery shopping Saturday among crowds that may have evoked a snow panic, and for all those game-day bashes Sunday.

Whatever ended up landing probably wouldn’t stick around long. Temperatures will make a run at 40 during the day, and the February sun is getting stronger.

That appears to be likely, although the prospects of a major snowstorm appeared to be fading.

The best shot at accumulating snow would be Tuesday, but the weather service’s Alex Staarmann said it’s “still not clear how much we’re going to get.”

Computer guidance was showing the best chance for several inches was across Delmarva and extreme South Jersey, O’Hara said.

AccuWeather’s Kines said that his early guess would be something on the order of 1 to 3 inches in the immediate Philadelphia area, “but a lot can happen between now and then.”

And it’s a good bet that it will.

Said O’Hara: “I would be surprised if we got nothing.”

Snow was due to return Wednesday night, although Philly was likely to end up on the warm side of that storm, he said, which would mean mostly rain.

In short, Philly’s seasonal total, 4.9 inches, might not change all that much in the next seven days.

Looking further ahead, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center suggests more opportunities for snow, or at least snow threats. Its forecast for the Feb. 16-to-22 period has the odds favoring below-normal temperatures and above-normal precipitation.