The good news for kids and people who plow driveways as a side gig: With a storm watch upgraded to storm warning, forecasters are calling for a fast-moving system to dump between four and eight inches of snow on the Plymouth area starting Saturday night.
The inconvenient news for people who park their cars and trucks in the downtown and North Plymouth areas: A parking ban is scheduled to take effect starting at 1 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 9, and lasting until 1 p.m. on Sunday. Any vehicle parked in a restricted area could be towed “at the owner’s expense,” the town said.
Parking will still be available in town-owned lots. They’re labeled in red on the map below. (For a zoomable version of the map, go here.)
across Court Street to South Spooner Street, westerly on South Spooner Street to Standish
Avenue, south on Standish Avenue to Samoset Street, east on Samoset Street to Oak Street,
south on Oak Street to Summer Street, east on Summer Street to Pleasant Street, south on
Pleasant Street to Robinson Street, west on Robinson Street to Mayflower Street, south on
Mayflower Street to South Street, east on South Street to Sandwich Street, south on Sandwich Street to the entrance to Stephens Field.”
To make snow removal easier, the town’s Public Works Department is asking motorists to stay off roads during the storm. The heaviest accumulation is expected in the early morning hours Sunday.
With temperatures late Saturday and early Sunday expected to hover around 27 degrees, forecasters say the precipitation should mostly be in the form of snow, with a possible changeover to a freezing mix in South Plymouth toward the Cape Cod Canal.
Mark Pothier can be reached at mark@plymouthindependent.org.