HYANNIS – The first major winter storm of the season dumped quite a bit of snow across the area.
According to final totals collected by the National Weather Service, Chatham and Harwich picked up the most snow on Cape Cod, with 14.5 inches.
Not far behind was Mashpee with 14 inches.
Several other towns reported 13 inches of snow, including Sandwich, Orleans and Falmouth.
Just off Cape, New Bedford recorded 16 inches, while just over 19 inches fell in Plymouth.
Maximum wind gusts across the region during the height of the storm ranged from 52 mph on Nantucket, 48 mph in Orleans, 46 mph in Woods Hole and 41 mph in Sandwich.
As the storm was raging Saturday night, reports came in just before 10 p.m. that a fisherman went overboard from a vessel at MacMillan Wharf in Provincetown and was being pulled out by the current.
Provincetown Police and Fire responded along with the Harbormaster and U.S. Coast Guard. The unidentified man was brought back to the pier where an ambulance was waiting to evaluate him.
He was taken to Cape Cod Hospital and his condition unknown early Sunday morning.
The Barnstable County Regional Emergency Planning Committee (BCREPC) decided against activating the Regional Shelter System Saturday afternoon.
The committee held a planning conference call in the morning to review the latest forecasts and determined that the system wasn’t need since it was a fast-moving storm and temperatures were expected to moderate later in the week.
Ferries, buses and airlines were all expected to back on schedule Monday morning after shutting down on Saturday and early Sunday morning.
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