FXUS01 KWBC 052003
PMDSPD

Short Range Forecast Discussion
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
302 PM EST Thu Dec 05 2019

Valid 00Z Fri Dec 06 2019 - 00Z Sun Dec 08 2019

...Periods of snow to coat the Great Lakes and Northeast regions
with light accumulations tonight and into Friday...

...Passing showers and a few thunderstorms in the south central
Plains tonight will head for the Deep South tomorrow...

...A Pacific storm system will usher in unsettled weather to the
West Coast to kickoff the weekend...

Scattered lake effect snow showers and locally heavy snow squalls
will dissipate this evening as a weak disturbance tracking through
the Great Lakes approaches the region. Snow falling in northeast
Minnesota this afternoon will move east across the northern Great
Lakes this evening and into the Northeast on Friday. Accumulations
on average will range between 1-4" with localized amounts of 6"
possible in central New York. Snow will race east late Friday and
drier conditions will settle in across the Great Lakes and
Northeast as high pressure takes hold of these regions this
weekend.

A developing low pressure system in the Southern Plains is
responsible for showers across the High Plains of Colorado this
afternoon. This storm system will develop more shower activity, as
well as a few thunderstorms, from Oklahoma to the Lower
Mississippi Valley overnight. The storm will then head into the
Deep South on Friday with showers and thunderstorms expected from
Louisiana to Georgia. The storm will weaken Saturday as it tracks
south into the Gulf of Mexico with only a few spotty showers left
in its wake.

The West Coast will deal with yet another Pacific storm system
that will usher in more rain and mountain snow starting Friday
morning. Heavy rain is possible along the coastal range of
northern California and in the northern Sacramento Valley late
Friday. Further east, Winter Storm Watches have been issued for
much of the Sierra Nevada where snow amounts will range from 1-3
feet through the weekend. The Intermountain West will be next on
the storm's list late Saturday with mountain snow and scattered
showers region wide.


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Graphics available at
www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php
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