Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 353 PM EST Sat Dec 06 2014 Valid 00Z Sun Dec 07 2014 - 00Z Tue Dec 09 2014 ...Wet and dreary conditions across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states should begin to clear out... ...A wintry mix of precipitation expected for the Upper Midwest... ...A series of Pacific systems will begin impacting the Northwest by early Monday... An abundance of moisture getting pulled northward over a frontal boundary stretched through the eastern U.S. will continue to fuel a wide axis of moderate to heavy precipitation across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states Saturday evening. Pockets of snow...sleet...and freezing rain will be possible within the northwestern fringe of the precipitation shield...but a strong surface high sliding into the East should gradually push the front and associated wet and dreary conditions off the Atlantic coast by Sunday morning. The southern portion of the front is expected to stall and linger off the Southeast coast...making light shower activity possible for the Carolina coast. Vigorous energy crossing the northern Rockies and ejecting through the Plains will help produce a swath of wintry precipitation near the resulting surface feature tracking across the Upper Midwest on Sunday. Limited moisture should keep precipitation totals light...but the energy aloft will play a bigger role in the forecast as it amplifies over the eastern U.S. early next week. With the exception of a few light snow showers in the Rockies...the western U.S. should stay dry for the remainder of the weekend; However...the first of a series of Pacific systems expected to move onshore next week will bring precipitation into Northern California and the Pacific Northwest by early Monday. Gerhardt Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php