Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 441 AM EDT Sat Nov 02 2013 Valid 12Z Sat Nov 02 2013 - 12Z Mon Nov 04 2013 ...Weather will become increasingly active across the northwestern corner of the Country while conditions quiet down in the East... Weather will become increasingly active across the northwestern corner of the Country this weekend as a potent Pacific system moves onshore. An abundance of moisture streaming inland ahead of the storm's cold front will fuel moderate to heavy rains along the coastal ranges of Washington/Oregon and accumulating snows over the Cascades early Saturday morning. Even though moisture will become increasingly sparse with this system as it quickly crosses the Intermountain West on Saturday and races through the Northern Plains on Sunday...strong winds and lowering temperatures behind the front should still produce widespread snow showers along the favored terrain of the Intermountain West and Northern Rockies this weekend. Showers and thunderstorms along the Eastern Seaboard will continue to push farther out into the Atlantic on Saturday...with storms even expected to clear the southern tip of Florida by Sunday morning. A cold front dropping through the Great Lakes and New England will lower temperatures while triggering light rain and snow showers on Saturday...but conditions will really start to clear out across the East as a large dome of high pressure expands over the region. Elsewhere across the Nation...weak energy aloft lifting out of Northern Mexico during the later half of the weekend could trigger light precipitation across the Southern Rockies and West Texas. Gerhardt Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php