Short Range Forecast Discussion
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
354 PM EDT Wed Apr 25 2018

Valid 00Z Thu Apr 26 2018 - 00Z Sat Apr 28 2018

...Moderate to locally heavy rainfall to spread across the Deep South and
into the Mid-Atlantic...

Rainfall moving through the Northeast this afternoon will continue
pressing northward, coming to an end on Thursday as the surface low and
associated upper level system races northward into Canada. Behind this,
another system is spreading rain and thunderstorms across the middle
Mississippi Valley and into the Southern Plains, as an area of low
pressure develops in the lower Mississippi Valley along the attendant cold
front. As this surface low tracks east and eventually northeast Thursday
and Friday, moderate to locally heavy rainfall with embedded thunderstorms
will move across the Deep South and into the Mid-Atlantic. Behind this
front, temperatures will be on the cooler side, with afternoon highs on
Thursday and Friday near 10 degrees below normal across the Gulf Coast
states and into parts of the Tennessee Valley.

Elsewhere across the country, things should be mostly quiet as surface
high pressure dominates across the central states. Some light and
scattered rain showers may be possible along the northern part of the cold
front as it moves eastward through the Great Lakes and eventually into the
Northeast, and another round of precipitation looks to enter the west
coast by the end of the work week ahead of a large upper level system out
in the Pacific.


Santorelli

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