Coastal Flood in Dukes, Massachusetts

Coastal Flood January 17, 2022 · Dukes, Massachusetts

What the National Weather Service wrote

In Vineyard Haven at 1037 AM EST there was significant coastal flooding at the 5 Corners area with roads closed.

The wider storm

A strong low pressure system moved up the eastern seaboard Sunday night into Monday bringing heavy snow to western and central Massachusetts and snow changing to rain elsewhere. Strong winds caused some damage and there were some coastal flooding issues as well. Snow overspread the region between 10pm and 2 am before quickly changing to rain across most of CT, RI, and eastern MA. Strong to damaging winds impacted the south coast late Sunday night into Monday morning with moderate coastal flooding during the Mon morning high tide.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1002546. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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