London - It’s a favoured summer holiday spot for wealthy New Yorkers - but for now, Cape Cod looks more like the barren Arctic.
One of the worst winters in nearly 40 years has left the Massachusetts coast covered in these huge ice boulders. Eric Fisher, a CBS meteorologist, said it was a “once-in-a-generation” event, adding: “It’s been an amazing winter with some unforgettable scenes…this is likely the most ice we’ve seen develop since the 1977-78 winter and perhaps farther back.”
Although small fragments often drift ashore in winter, this year’s are “more extreme” in size and of a much larger number.
Marianne McCaffery, of Cape Cod Seashore national park, said the ice boulders form in open water, but are left behind as the tide goes out. They are bigger this year as there has been ‘no snow melt in between storms’, she added.
Twelve storms hit the US east coast this winter, some bringing up to 16in of snow to New England. February broke Boston’s record for the most snowfall in a month, with 64.7in.
Daily Mail