Photos: Heavy Snowfall Over Boston

Updated February 09, 2017

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In and around Boston, people cope with — and enjoy -- heavy snowfall during the city's first big snowstorm this February. The Greater Boston area is expected to receive between 10 and 15 inches of snow by the storm's end.

A man with an umbrella walks through Copley Square during the snowstorm. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Natalie (pink), Sami (purple) and Maddie (blue) Brown play in the snow on the Commonwealth Ave. Mall. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

A work crew arrives to dig out an MBTA bus stuck on Commonwealth Ave. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Lauren Gibbens, 7, and Will Thorpe, 5, ride a sled down the hill at Boston Common. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Kids sled down the hill at Boston Common during the snowstorm. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

A worker clears snow in front of the Prudential Center with a snow sweeper. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

The fresh snow draws many colleges students to Boston Common for a public snowball fight. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

College students use a slingshot to hurl snowballs at the opposing side during a snowball fight on the Boston Common. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Students sit on a giant inflatable swan as they have a snowball fight in the Boston Common. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Snow plows on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

White geese walk through the snow near the BU Bridge. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Oppong Serebour is keeping the Boylston Street sidewalk in front of the Old South Church in Copley Square clear for pedestrians. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

MBTA buses continue on their routes as the snow falls. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Vehicles make their way through the snow on the Mass. Pike in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

A runner braves the winter storm on Memorial Drive, Cambridge. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) — A runner braves the winter storm on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

A pedestrian walks through the beginning of the storm on Commonwealth Avenue. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

A stretch of Commonwealth Avenue as the snowfall began to pick up in Boston. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) — A stretch of Commonwealth Avenue as the snowfall begins to pick up in Boston. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

A man runs down Commonwealth Avenue at the beginning of the snowstorm. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

This article was originally published on February 09, 2017.

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Photos: Heavy Snowfall Over Boston

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