Island Digs Out After Daylong Storm Brings Snow, Coastal Flooding
Sara Brown

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.

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For Weather Forecast, Turn to Sheep, Snakes, or Birds
Suzan Bellincampi

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

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A Ticket to the Snow Show
Suzan Bellincampi

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.

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What's That in the Fields? Blizzard Leaves Rare Snow Rollers
Sara Brown

The weekend blizzard left a rare calling card: cylindrical hunks of snow called snow rollers strewn across Vineyard fields.

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Martha's Vineyard Digs Out after Blizzard Lashes Island
Sara Brown

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

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No Need for a Fire; El Niño Warmed the Cockles
Suzan Bellincampi

Warm weather over the holiday weekend can be attributed in part to climate change, and even more directly to the El Niño effect.

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Year in Weather: Big Blizzards, Sunny Summer

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.

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Storm-Tossed Island, But Hurricane Threat Remote

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.

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When in Drought, the Wildflowers Grow
Robert A. Culbert

We are in a drought, and we can see its effect on lawns that are not irrigated.

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Squalls Race Across Island With Downpours, Lightning Strikes
Megan Cerullo

Roads flooded and lightning struck in more than one place when a line of severe squalls raced through the Vineyard Wednesday morning.

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