Погода: Хайаннис, июнь

Nantucket has its own name for June - Junuary - for the gloom and the wind, and the month delivers either glorious weather or cold, rain and fog with nothing in between. Our row's 20.5C day over a 13.8C night, at 89 percent humidity with a 29.1 kph wind, is the damp version. Fog is the practical risk because it closes the airport: it is worst in the early morning and early evening, though cancellations are less frequent than the reputation suggests, since the schedules flex around the clear breaks. Crowds arrive in the second half of the month once schools are out, and even then they are confined to a few blocks of town - 70 percent of the island is conservation land. The record: 5.9 precipitation days carrying 60.1mm, 11.3 hours of sun and a 16.2C sea.

Cape Cod's own forum doesn't sugarcoat February: expect a real chance of high wind, biting cold and snow, and New England weather here is notoriously hard to predict from one day to the next. Multiple posters recommended layering with fleece under a windproof shell so you can still get outside comfortably. A good number of shops and restaurants that cater to the summer crowd simply close for the season, so plan meals ahead rather than expecting to wander and find something open. It's a legitimate visit for solitude and off-season prices, just not the postcard version of the Cape.

Forum posters describe August as typically the warmest month, often in the 80s-90sF and humid, though the Cape's ocean breezes keep it noticeably cooler than inland Massachusetts at the same time - a stretch of 90F+ days is possible, but so is a cooler, rawer spell within the same month. Posters call August rain genuinely unpredictable, ranging from a light sprinkle to a full washed-out day, though it's typically the lowest-rain month of the summer overall. Mosquitoes are a real, near-constant presence, especially in the evenings, with repellent treated as standard packing. Posters consistently name the last two weeks of August through September as the more reliably pleasant stretch compared to June or early August.