Thousands of Cape Cod homes without power - 4:46 p.m. “You just have to be patient and do the best you can.” “We’ll get through it, we always do,” she said. “It was very, very cold, but also very picturesque and beautiful.”įrancis has lived in Chatham for four years and previously spent 30 years in Vermont, so she’s no stranger to intense winter weather. and the sun was out and the sky was blue,” she said. Monday.įrancis said she stepped outside on Sunday and it was rather nice with the sun shining despite the bitter cold. “Anyone who was anticipating staying here night called us 24 to 48 hours prior and made the decision not to make the journey.”Įversource said it was expecting to have power back on for virtually all Chatham residents by 6 p.m. “We were closed but I do have a few locals staying here tonight who don’t have heat in their homes,” she said. No guests stayed at the Inn on Saturday, all having canceled their visits, Francis said, but a few area residents, including a woman in her 90s, were spending the night there on Sunday after losing power and heat in their homes. Sunday, including at the Chatham Inn, where general manager Lyn Francis said the Inn’s generator was keeping the lights and heat on in the lobby and a few of rooms. Let's just say we COULD be looking at some ice or snow.Customers still without power in Chatham - 6:53 p.m.Ībout 86 percent of customers in Chatham were still without power as of 6 p.m. As for Friday, well, that's another blog for another day. We start to warm things up by midweek, we should get into the 40's Wednesday and Thursday. It will be cold for the next few days, but bright and dry. Thankfully we get several days to catch our breath. Swampscott and Danvers were among several towns north of Boston that ended up with more than 2 feet of snow. Places like Sharon, Whitman, Rockland and Norton all received over two feet of snow, some topping the 30" mark! Not to be outdone, the North Shore also had some whopping totals. The jackpot with this storm was just south of Boston thanks to a semi-stationary, intense snow band which dropped 1-to-3" per hour for most of the day. This winter has been absolutely crazy - 97% of the total snowfall for the entire season has fallen on two days, January 7th and January 29th.īreaking it down even further, you could say 97% of our snowfall this season in Boston has fallen in about 15 hours! Incredible! With 35.9" this month, January 2022 will go in the books tied with January 1978 for the fourth snowiest January on recordīoston now sits at 36.3" for the season, more than a foot above the average snow to date.It was 4.1 inches shy of the 27.6" that fell in February of 2003, the top dog on the list. Seventh biggest all-time snowstorm (of any month) in Boston.27, 2015 storm which dropped 24.6 inches. Second biggest snowstorm in January history in Boston.The old record was 3.7 inches in 1928 (kind of a lame record, I know) While we didn't break any of the big records in Boston, this storm does have a place in the record books: Had that not happened, we may had recorded an official blizzard in Chatham, Falmouth, Provincetown and Smithfield, Rhode Island as well. Many of the NWS stations stopped reporting mid-storm (likely taken out by the wind). And, all of this has to occur for at least three consecutive hours. To qualify, you must record visibilities equal to or less than quarter of a mile from either falling or blowing snow along with frequent wind gusts to 35 mph or more.
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