Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 324 AM EDT Tue Sep 16 2014 Valid 12Z Tue Sep 16 2014 - 12Z Thu Sep 18 2014 ...Heavy rain possible over parts of the Southwest/Southern Rockies... A quasi-stationary front extending from the Mid-Atlantic roughly southwestward to the Southern Plains will settle across the Gulf Coast States and lift northward into the Central Plains by Wednesday. Showers and thunderstorms will develop near and along the boundary over parts of the Southeast/Southern Mid-Atlantic through Wednesday. Showers and thunderstorms will develop over parts of the Western Gulf Coast and the Southern Plains on Tuesday into Wednesday. In addition, showers and thunderstorms will develop along the Eastern/Central Gulf Coast and Florida through Wednesday evening. Meanwhile, upper-level energy over the Northeast will aid in producing rain over the area on Tuesday morning waning to parts of Maine by Tuesday evening. Additionally, a front moving southeastward out of Central Canada will move into the Great Lakes and Northern New England Tuesday evening into Wednesday evening. The boundary will produce light rain over parts of the Upper Great Lakes from early Wednesday morning to Wednesday afternoon. Elsewhere, moisture moving northward from the Gulf of California that is associated with T. S. Odile will enter the Southwest aiding in the development of showers and thunderstorms over parts of the Southwest, Southern Rockies, and into parts of the Great Basin through Wednesday evening. Ziegenfelder Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php