Ready the sleds, bust out the skis and have the hot cocoa on hand; Martha’s Vineyard got its biggest snowfall of the year.
Starting late Saturday night and into Sunday morning, parts of the Island were covered in several inches of powdery snow. Reports from the National Weather Service tallied 5 inches of snow in Chilmark and 4.5 in West Tisbury.
It was the most snow the Vineyard has received since February 2024, when a heavy wet storm blanketed the Island, closing schools and pulling down trees.
This weekend’s storm was much lighter, and there were no power outages reported by Eversource on Sunday morning.
The National Weather Service did warn that as the snow winded down, pockets of freezing drizzle was possible, potentially creating a light glaze of ice and more packable snow.
Tisbury instituted a street parking ban on Saturday night for several downtown streets, to allow plow drivers to do their work.
Kirk Metell, the Tisbury department of public works director, had pleaded with Islanders on Saturday to settle in early for the evening.
“I know the white fluffy stuff is pretty and some of you can not resist the urge to go out and play,” he wrote in Islanders Talk, the community Facebook group. “I’m begging you to please stay off the roads once we start plowing.”
The Vineyard’s snow totals fell in line with the rest of the region. Parts of the Cape reported about 6 inches of snow, but most were between 3 and 5 inches. Further north, New Englanders in New Hampshire and Maine received 10 inches or more.
The storm was the first real shovelable snow for the Vineyard this winter, and there was a chance of more snow on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, according to the weather service.
