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18th Annual Outlaw Grass Drags in…

SnowmobilingNews.com — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:00:22 +0000

2011-08-14 18:00:22

On August 26 the 18th Annual Outlaw Grass Drags and Swap Meet begins the late summer/fall season of snowmobile grass drags in the Midwest. This is a great event to get the sledding blood flowing in your veins. Get out your Exciters, Indy’s, El Tigre’s, and Formulas, because new this year the Outlaws will
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Major storms heading to Midwest and Mid-Atlantic

SnowmobilingNews.com — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:30:54 +0000

Kevin Roth, Lead Meteorologist, The Weather Channel

Feb. 8, 2010 10:27 am ET

Two storm systems combine to bring a sprawling snowstorm to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast Tuesday and Wednesday.

The northern storm swirls southeastward from the upper Mississippi Valley today to the lower Ohio Valley Tuesday. Light to occasionally moderate snow moves along with the storm dropping 4 to 8 inches of snow from eastern South Dakota through southern Minnesota and central Iowa.

The southern storm brought a quick 2 to 6 inches of snow across central Arkansas and western Tennessee this morning. Memphis had 3 to 5 inches across the city and Little Rock picked up a quick 1 to 4 inches. Light snow was reported as far east as south-central Tennessee and northern Alabama.

That system dries up as it continues to move eastward this afternoon, but a new round of snow is blossoming to the west over southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma.

The snow lifts to the northeast through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri on its way to the lower Ohio Valley by this evening. Accumulations of 2 to 6 inches are possible across southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Additional snowfall of 3 to 9 inches is possible across southern Missouri and northern Arkansas through Tuesday morning.

Tuesday the storms combine to bring a snowstorm to the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Ohio Valley.

Significant accumulations of 6 inches or more are likely in an area bound by Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, Ohio, Cleveland, and Detroit.

Tuesday afternoon and evening the storm begins moving into the Mid-Atlantic spreading snow into western and northern Virginia during the afternoon and into the southern half of eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey during the evening.

Overnight the snow spreads throughout the rest of eastern Pennsylvania into New York and southern New England.

On Wednesday the storm rapidly strengthens off the New Jersey/Long Island coastline prolonging heavy snow from Washington to Boston. Strong winds develop Tuesday night and Wednesday producing blizzard conditions along the coast.

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Fierce Cold Spreads Across East as Blizzard Targets Northern New England

SnowmobilingNews.com — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:44:43 +0000

A New Year’s blizzard will unfold in northern New England and southern Atlantic Canada later today into early Sunday. Widespread lake-effect snow showers, fierce winds and severe cold are spreading all the way to the Northeast coast and down the spine of the of the Appalachians.

The worst of the storm will rage from northern New York and southern Quebec to Maine and New Brunswick.

The hardest hit communities will endure several hours of heavy, windblown snow. Severe drifting of snow will occur, keeping roads clogged even well after the heavy snow tapers off.

People who live in northern parts of Vermont and New Hampshire, Maine and southern parts of Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia will be digging out from a foot to a foot and a half of snow. A few locations in this zone will have 2 feet of snow!

Travel will be nearly impossible in this area this weekend with snow-packed roadways and white-out conditions.

Parts of the Boston area have already received 6 inches of snow. Up to an additional 6 inches will accumulate and disrupt travel through Sunday.

The rest of the Midwest and Northeast will escape the blizzard, but will have to endure frigid temperatures, wind gusts between 40 and 60 mph, bands of heavy lake-effect snow and sudden snow showers that quickly make roads slippery.

Hundreds of flight delays and cancellations are likely in the Midwest and the Northeast.

The winds will be strong enough this weekend to down tree limbs and cut power to some areas in New England, the mid-Atlantic and Nova Scotia.

Although not as strong as this weekend, gusty winds will continue to contribute to cold AccuWeather.com RealFeel® temperatures through the first half of the week.