Hard to beat the recent run the Cape has seen. Has had either snow falling, or snow on the ground Christmas Eve / Christmas for 3 of the last 4 years.
The 2022 ocean effect band (west to east instead of the normal north to south!) was one to remember.
This afternoon in Barnstable.
Roads pretty rough on Cape.
A day of two storms; A calm wind bringing 3” of wet snow until 4PM, followed by dropping temps, winds gusting to 30mph out of the NW, and +3” additional inches of fluff.
After a day of windless snow, really ramping up here on Cape Cod in the last hour. Gusting +30mph, sustained 15-20mph.
Totally different feel outside, could make a run at +6 inches with these conditions.
HRRR continues to show a narrow band of 2-4 inches of extra snow for parts of Cape before this one wraps up.
Very tight gradient however, 5-10 miles could be the difference between a dusting and higher amounts.
Black line is the 30-year rolling average; for BOS the 1930-1960 period was around 32.7F. Current "climate" is about +2F greater at 34.6F.
Most notable is that pre-2002 and over the course of +125 years, BOS did not once see a Dec-Mar winter where avg. temps were +37.5F. Since 2002 we've seen 6 years +37.5...
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