Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 433 AM EDT Thu Mar 13 2014 Valid 12Z Thu Mar 13 2014 - 12Z Sat Mar 15 2014 ...Blustery conditions expected behind a winter storm exiting the Northeast early Thursday... ...Rain and snow showers possible with a Pacific front moving inland over the Northwest on Friday... Conditions will gradually clear out across the Northeast on Thursday as the winter storm that dumped over a foot of snow over interior New England tracks farther up the Eastern Seaboard. Strong northwesterly winds behind the storm will make for a blustery day across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states...but winds should begin to diminish and temperatures will start to rebound once the storm lifts into the Canadian Maritimes on Friday. A cold front approaching the western U.S. will bring precipitation into the Pacific Northwest late Thursday night into early Friday morning. Shower activity will spread inland with the front as it pushes through the Intermountain West and Northern Rockies on Friday. A modest amount of moisture combined with orographics should produce moderate amounts over the favored slopes of the terrain...with accumulating snows expected within the higher elevations of the Washington Cascades and Northern Rockies. Light rain and snow showers will be possible beneath a piece of energy swinging through the Four Corners region on Friday. As the energy aloft progresses east of the Southern Rockies and moisture makes a return from the Western Gulf of Mexico...shower activity should begin breaking out across the Southern Plains by late Friday night/early Saturday morning. Light snows will be possible with a surface low streaking down from Canada and crossing the Upper Great Lakes on Friday. Any significant accumulations with this system should stay north of the Canadian border. Gerhardt Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php