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A dreary weekend is expected for much of the Florida Peninsula. That could be problematic for NASCAR fans who are eagerly awaiting the biggest race of the year on Sunday – the Daytona 500. Wet weather is forecast to begin sometime Saturday and linger through the bulk of Sunday. While NASCAR has the technology to dry the track, it has to stop raining first.
A Flood Watch has been issued for much of the California coastline, stretching from San Francisco to Los Angeles. That’s because another in a series of powerful storms battering the state this week is arriving Saturday. That’ll be followed by another storm on Sunday.
A quick-moving storm system brought a blanket of snow overnight to a large swath of the mid-Atlantic and parts of the Northeast, delivering to some communities the heaviest snowfall of the year, with winter weather alerts issued at one point late Friday for more than 50 million people.
Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York City all received accumulating snowfall. The heaviest totals were observed across Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Spotters reported 4-6 inches around Pittsburgh, and 5-8 inches were reported in eastern Pennsylvania east into New Jersey.
A snow drought in Minnesota could cause problems for a major skiing race set to happen this weekend.
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