A worker uses a front-end loader to remove piled snow Saturday from a street in Marlborough, Mass. Another long duration winter storm is pounding New England with heavy snow.

BOSTON — Winter-weary New England braced Sunday for another round of snow that threatened to bear down on the region into the workweek and pile up to 2 feet in some areas.

As light snow began falling by the afternoon, drivers were warned to stay off the roads and cancellations were posted for schools and court dockets today.

The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for central New York, the western Catskills and much of New England through early Tuesday.

“I’m frustrated. The last thing I want to be talking about is another 24 inches of snow. I want to move on to something else,” Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said at City Hall. “It’s unprecedented ... Maybe up in Alaska or Buffalo, they have this amount of snow and they’re used to it.”

Walsh said the city would close schools Tuesday as well, and he urged motorists to stay off the roads until the storm passes.

Court closings today meant another weather-related delay in jury selection in the Boston Marathon bombing trial and in the murder trial in Fall River of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez.

The snow is likely to cause problems for workweek commuters, though it wasn’t expected to accumulate as rapidly as in earlier snowstorms, including a record-busting late January blizzard. It also posed little risk of the coastal flooding that last month’s winter blasts brought.

Still the steady run of winter blasts has already sucked up over 70 percent of New Hampshire’s Department of Transportation winter maintenance budget. And the next round of snow was already promising trouble Sunday.