This is snow joke. It’s been that kind of winter.

After some parts of the region dug out from more than a foot of snow over the weekend, a few more inches of snow are on the way.

“It looks like we’re expecting in the 2- to 3-inch range for Boston with this clipper system,” National Weather Service meteorologist Kyle Pederson told the Herald.

The best chance for the highest amounts around 4 inches of snow will be across northern and northeast Massachusetts.

“Snow should arrive during the Tuesday late afternoon commute, around 5 to 7 p.m., and it should be all over and done with before the Wednesday morning commute,” Pederson said.

The South Shore and Cape are expected to see the lowest amounts of snow, with less than an inch of snow predicted for those spots. Snow may end as period of rain along the south coast.

This quick-moving clipper system will add to the nearly 40 inches of snow that Boston has already recorded this winter.

The 39.5 inches of snow in the city since Dec. 1 is almost two feet more than this time last winter — when only 18 inches of snow had been measured.

The normal snowfall total in Boston by this point of the winter is 27.7 inches.

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Fortunately, a bit of a warmup is on the way this week following the brutal arctic blast.

With the arctic airmass overhead gone, more seasonable temperatures make a return. Highs make it back to the mid to upper 30s over southern New England from Wednesday onward.

The above freezing temps will “help a little bit” with melting snow, Pederson said.

“It’s not going to melt a ton of snow when it’s still in the mid-30s, but some will definitely start to melt at least,” he added.

While daytime temps will be in the 30s, nighttime lows will still fall into the teens and low 20s — with some spots in the interior in the single digits. However, wind chills will not be as brutally cold.