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Are we headed for a snowy winter on Cape Cod? A National Weather Service expert breaks down the possibilities.
The original "Cape Cod style" light and keeper's house, c. 1830. Completed in 1827, the original Long Point Light was not a tower structure, but rather consisted of an octagonal lantern centered on the peak of the roof of the wooden keeper's house. Access to the lantern was by a spiral stair from the top floor of the house.
Massachusetts receives about 43 inches or 1,090 millimetres of rain annually, fairly evenly distributed throughout the years, slightly wetter during the winter. [2] Summers are warm with average high temperatures in July above 80 °F or 26.7 °C and overnight lows above 60 °F or 15.6 °C common throughout the state. [ 3 ]
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 ]
Kicking off Cape Cod’s Oktoberfest season is a Sept. 21 celebration at Cape Cod Beer in Hyannis, followed by an Oct. 5 bash at Mashpee Commons, an Oct. 19 gathering in Chatham’s Kate Gould ...
With October come and nearly gone, the autumnal beauty overtaking Cape Cod is hard to deny.. The leaves are shades of yellow, orange and red. The air is beginning to get a slight bitter chill and ...
Abandoned cars line Route 6A in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, one of the harder hit areas, receiving as much as 30.5 inches (77.5 cm) of snow during the blizzard.. The North American blizzard of 2005 was a three-day storm that affected large areas of the northern United States, dropping more than 3 feet (0.9 m) of snow in parts of southeastern Massachusetts, as well as much of the Boston ...
Until the latter half of the nineteenth century, the East Harbor was a natural embayment deep enough to shelter Provincetown's fishing fleet during the winter, and was connected to Cape Cod Bay through a 1,000-foot-wide (300 m) inlet. [3] This effectively isolated neighboring Provincetown from Truro and other towns on Cape Cod. [1]