As long as there is at least six inches, there is life between the snow and earth.

In a word: dry. The year 2016 saw widespread drought conditions over the second half of the year on Martha’s Vineyard, not good for local farmers, but maybe not bad for a resort Island that depends on good beach days.

Rain really does have a scent, and our ability to smell it might be a holdover from times when rain could mean survival.

Ferries were cancelled and schools and town offices shuttered Monday as a winter storm moved through the Vineyard, bringing blizzard conditions for nearly five hours.

Groundhogs are marmots that belong to a group of large ground squirrels in the order Rodentia.

Crazy that snow is so simple, yet so complicated. We all know it is just frozen water, but describing it can get much more detailed.

A blizzard battered the Vineyard Saturday with high winds and heavy snow, causing power outages and ferry cancellations.

Hot enough for you? The quintessential New England weather cliche is usually reserved for July, or August, not December, with church bells ringing carols, flip-flops observed and people hanging out on the Island Home’s weather deck.

Drenching rains and gale-force winds marked the start of the weekend, but forecasters and emergency managers breathed a little easier over the powerful hurricane churning through the southern Atlantic.