Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 232 AM EST Fri Nov 29 2013 Valid 12Z Fri Nov 29 2013 - 12Z Sun Dec 01 2013 ...Fairly quiet weather across the country to start the weekend... ...Rain moving into the Pacific Northwest by Saturday evening... We're facing a fairly quiet weather pattern moving into the holiday weekend with no significant precipitation expected across much of the nation. For the Great Lakes region, a weak clipper system moving across the area could trigger some very light snow showers downwind of the lakes on Friday morning, but should clear out by Friday afternoon. However, another clipper moves in behind that one and could trigger more snow showers on Saturday for at least the Northern Lakes region. In the southern tier, onshore northeasterly flow could bring a few scattered showers or thunderstorms to Florida's Atlantic coastline through the weekend, while a relatively weak upper low spinning off the Southwest U.S. coast could clip coastal Southern California with some light rain on Friday. In the Pacific Northwest, small pieces of energy embedded in the overall upper flow may bring some light rain or snow showers to favorable slopes of the extreme Northern Cascades and Northern Rockies. By Saturday evening though, a stronger upper level system begins to move towards Western Canada which should increase the chances for more organized precipitation across parts of the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies. Monarski Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php