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Old Man Winter has opened the taps. Roofs are covered. The parking lot is covering up. Can't see down the road.

Starting to stick to the cars in the lot and on the roofs.

Increasing in intensity.

What analog was used for this system?

Pouring snow.

Where on cape?

Mostly snow here. Big flakes.

Battle of the P-types now. The Breakfast Room may have to close before 2.

Snow starting in W. Dennis. Cottonballs

Just noticed. A few puffs of wind shaking the spruces by the road. Other than those puffs, there's little to no wind.

This winter has been a bummer for me so far, hopefully today that changes.

I know. I was referring to sunrise this morning.

Steel gray skies. You can feel something is coming.

Rain here at 43 degrees. I feel like it's going to kick over at some point. Wind still east.

There was a storm in February of '92 that gave the Cape/immediate south shore a good thumping as the low retrograded from Nova Scotia. Vaguely remember it (I was three years old.) That winter ('91/'92) was abysmal.

I'm interested in that hurricane that had been left out of the database and was described as a "winter type storm."

The 27th anniversary of the Superstorm of 1993 is fast approaching. How much did everyone get? Out on ACK 2" was reported, but I could've sworn we had more. Maybe that was from the storm that hit SNE on the 10-11th?

About average it seems

How good was the winter of 1957-58 for SNE? According to my dad, the snowstorm that happened on his birthday (3/14/58) knocked out the power to Richardson House.

Thanksgiving 1989 rings a bell. ACK got a foot out of it (in November nonetheless.) With Turkey Day in two weeks. Sorry for the crappy snow map.

I hope we get a few SE Mass Specials this winter. There was a good one in '93 that I distinctively remember in early Feb. ACK had 60 mph winds. I wonder how the cape did in that storm. Feb. 1/2, 1993. I went home from daycare early on the 1st. I remember the teachers talking about how we were going to get a bad storm. I looked outside and saw the battleship gray color of the clouds hanging low. Then there were very small snowflakes that stuck to the teachers coat. That night was windy with light snow.

My dad took me to see the houses getting washed out to sea during the nor'easter. We lived on ACK. I'll never forget the waves. The air smelled of the sea. Downtown was impassable in spots, very much like it was during the No Name Storm, or the Perfect Storm as it is now known. My mom wanted to kill him for taking me so close to the breakers (I was 4.) We recorded it in the storm album, which he maintains to this day. He said of the December 1992 nor'easter that it reminded him of the March 30th 1984 storm. He was in the coast guard then and he went to go check on Great Point Light. The Galls, a tombolo which connects Great Point with the rest of Nantucket were breached and he had to time the waves. They were breached in 1991 and this storm. Here is a picture of Great Point right after the 1984 storm: The Storm of the Century in 1993 gave us 75 mph winds and officially 2 inches of snow, but dad and I recorded 7 inches in the parking lot of RB Corcoran and our apartment. My theory on the 2 inches is because it was measured at the airport, which is on a broad open plain and the wind whipped everything away.

What about the storm that smoked Cape Cod and the islands in February of 1989?

Blizzard of 2015 (the first one) Day after superbowl storm.

Christmas of '02 was a decent storm, not for CC and the Islands, but in the interior. The Berk foothills almost recorded 20 inches.