Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 350 AM EST Mon Feb 10 2014 Valid 12Z Mon Feb 10 2014 - 12Z Wed Feb 12 2014 ...The stage is set for a winter event to impact locations from Texas to North Carolina early this week... ...Active weather out West will shift from northern California and the Central Great Basin to the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies... A cold front dropping through the Deep South is expected to stall out once it reaches the Gulf Coast on Monday. Increasing amounts of moisture surging out of the Gulf of Mexico should fuel an expanding area of precipitation to the north of the boundary...eventually extending from Texas all the way to the Southeast and southern Mid-Atlantic coasts. Although precipitation totals should be light to moderate on Monday...enough cold air in place to the north of the boundary will allow for a swath of snow...sleet...and freezing rain within the northern edge of the precipitation shield. Also...more significant precipitation will be possible Tuesday night into Wednesday as a piece of energy ejecting out of the Southern Plains helps spin up a surface low along the stalled frontal boundary. The deepening low will play a key role in the winter weather potential along the Eastern Seaboard later this week...please refer to the Extended Forecast Discussion (PMDEPD) and Heavy Snow Discussion (QPFHSD) for more details. After a few days of much needed precipitation over Northern California and the Central Great Basin...the active weather out West will shift northward into Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies. A series of Pacific systems moving inland will bring rounds of soaking rains into western Oregon and Washington...with heavy snows expected in the higher elevations of the Cascades and Northern Rockies. As energy from these Pacific systems pushes eastward...light snows will be possible with an associated cold front crossing the Dakotas and Upper Midwest late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Gerhardt Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php