Tikkabik

So the day after Christmas was the first significant snowfall the Cape has seen since the cold weather started, and boy, did we get walloped.

Normally, we're accustomed to pretty mild winters here. Often the rest of Mass. will get hammered with a foot or more and we'll only get an inch or two, but the exact opposite is happening presently, thanks to "ocean effects" snow. What happened is that the land was a lot colder than the water, so heavy precipitation blew in from the ocean.

We got some rain yesterday afternoon and it pretty quickly turned over to snow, though it didn't start to accumulate until nightfall. Once it started, though, it accumulated quickly, and has fallen heavily throughout the night. And by "heavy," I mean at least a foot of snow, with more coming down -- they're predicting another four inches or so in some spots on the Cape before this thing is over.

What I'm most looking forward to, though, is that thick layer of icy slush I know is underneath all the snow -- like I said, it started out as rain.

Joy.