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Winters in coastal Massachusetts are nearly the same as winters on the mainland. In January, the coldest month of the year, Cape Cod has an average high temperature of 37 °F or 2.8 °C and an average low temperature of 21 °F or −6.1 °C. [15]
The Cape Cod Canal, completed in 1916, connects Buzzards Bay to Cape Cod Bay; its creation shortened the trade route between New York and Boston by 62 miles (100 km). [ 9 ] Cape Cod extends 65 miles (105 km) into the Atlantic Ocean, with a breadth of between 1–20 miles (1.6–32.2 km), and covers more than 400 miles (640 km) of shoreline. [ 10 ]
Chatham is located at the southeastern tip of Cape Cod and has historically been a fishing community. First settled by the English in 1664, the township was originally called Monomoit based on the indigenous population's term for the region. [1] Chatham was incorporated as a town on June 11, 1712, and has become a summer resort area.
Cape Cod will likely see the "coldest temperatures of the season" this weekend, according to the National Weather Service. 'Coldest temperatures of the season': Snow and chill in Cape Cod weekend ...
Rescuers who helped free more than a hundred dolphins from the Cape Cod shoreline say they've confirmed that the mass stranding that began June 28 was the largest involving dolphins in U.S. history.
Hyannis / ˌ h aɪ ˈ æ n ɪ s / is the largest of the seven villages in the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.It is the commercial and transportation hub of Cape Cod and was designated an urban area at the 1990 census.
Saralee Perel, who penned a column for the Cape Cod Times for 27 years, died Aug. 16, leaving a family of readers.
Provincetown (/ ˈ p r ɒ v ɪ n s ˌ t aʊ n /) is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States.A small coastal resort town with a year-round population of 3,664 as of the 2020 United States Census, [3] Provincetown has a summer population as high as 60,000. [4]