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Coastal Flood — Barnstable, MA

Feb 15, 2015

Low pressure off the Delmarva peninsula intensified rapidly as it moved northeastward. Its path just southeast of Nantucket brought heavy snow to all of southern New England and blizzard conditions and coastal flooding to coastal areas. Near blizzard conditions occurred across much of eastern Massachusetts.||This was the latest in a series of snowstorms that piled nearly 60 inches of snow on the city of Boston in barely three weeks. This amount of snow in such a short amount of time wreaked ha

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 560749). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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