Weather Basics is the topic of Sail MV's next Zoom talk, March 10, with Brian Whitely of Weather Routing Inc.
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.
The weekend blizzard left a rare calling card: cylindrical hunks of snow called snow rollers strewn across Vineyard fields.
