Rocky Neck: Shaped by fish fertilizer and a snowy wedding
Sunlight filters through mackerel-scale clouds over Rocky Neck, more properly called cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, which usually indicate that the weather is about to change. (Betsy Graham)
A stone tunnel leads to the beach at Rocky Neck State Park. (Betsy Graham)
Rocky Neck State Park spreads out along the shore of Long Island Sound in East Lyme. (Betsy Graham)
Published March 04. 2021 8:41AM By
Steve Fagin
Mention Rocky Neck in East Lyme, and most people envision summer weekends, when throngs pack the beach cheek-to-jowl, RVs and tents spread out over all 160 campsites, and late arrivals struggle to find a parking space or empty picnic table.
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Several inches of snow pummeled southeastern Connecticut overnight and early Thursday, causing school closures, parking bans and travel advisories.
By 2 p.m., 8.2 inches of snow had fallen in New London, 9.3 inches covered the ground in Ledyard and 11.5 inches had been measured in Norwich, according to the National Weather Service. Snow continued to fall Thursday morning and afternoon, adding to the piles on roads and sidewalks as wind gusts as high as 37 mph ripped through the region. A storm warning was in effect across the region until 1 p.m. and light snow still was falling in some areas about 2 p.m.