Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 420 AM EDT Tue Apr 08 2014 Valid 12Z Tue Apr 08 2014 - 12Z Thu Apr 10 2014 ...Widespread precipitation across the Eastern U.S. will come to an end on Tuesday... ...Warm up expected from the Rockies to the Plains... Widespread precipitation across the Eastern U.S. should come to an end on Tuesday as a surface low over the Lower Great Lakes lifts northeastward into Canada and the trailing cold front pushes off the Atlantic coast. Lingering showers will be possible across interior New England with moisture wrapping around the departing surface low. Also...an organized line of convection is expected with the cold front as it drops through Florida. The threat for severe weather and flash flooding has diminished with this system...and conditions should really clear out across the East by Wednesday. Behind the system departing the Eastern U.S....weather will become fairly quiet across the lower 48. Scattered shower activity will be possible beneath an upper disturbance diving through the Middle/Lower Mississippi Valley on Tuesday...but precipitation totals should be on the lighter side. An upper ridge out West will keep conditions dry and temperatures above normal for the majority of locations west of the Continental Divide...and the warmth should spread east into the Rockies and Great Plains states. The above average temperatures should return to near normal behind a cold front starting to drop south and east through the Northwest on Wednesday. Also...light showers will be possible with the passing front. Gerhardt Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php