Short Range Forecast Discussion
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
314 AM EDT Tue May 12 2026

Valid 12Z Tue May 12 2026 - 12Z Thu May 14 2026

...Showers and thunderstorms for the Southeast...

...Unsettled weather from the Great Lakes to the Northeast...

...Mixed precipitation for the Northern Intermountain Region by Thursday...

A front across the Upper Midwest will move southward and eastward to the
Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf Coast by Thursday. The System will produce
rain with embedded thunderstorms across the Great Lakes and into the Ohio
Valley on Tuesday, then move into the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic on
Wednesday and into Thursday.

A second front moving onshore over the Pacific Northwest overnight Tuesday
will produce scattered rain with a few embedded thunderstorms over the
Northwest on Wednesday morning, then move into the Northern Rockies by
Thursday. The associated upper-level energy will produce mixed rain and
snow over the highest elevations of the Northern Intermountain Region on
Thursday morning. Moreover, light rain will develop over parts of the
Northern Plains/Upper Mississippi Valley by Thursday morning.

Elsewhere, a front will linger across the Southeast, producing showers and
thunderstorms through Wednesday night.


Ziegenfelder


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