Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 431 AM EDT Tue Sep 23 2014 Valid 12Z Tue Sep 23 2014 - 12Z Thu Sep 25 2014 The big weather feature affecting the United States during the next few days will be the sprawling cyclone bearing down on the Pacific Northwest coast. This giant storm is expected to lash the coastline with strong winds and waves, with heavy rains spreading inland to the crest of the Cascades. The attendant cold front should slice into much of coastal California, with significant showers reaching all the way to the San Francisco Bay area. The central states will slowly dry out, though weak disturbances should keep the threat of at least scattered showers through Thursday. A large, cool Canadian high will settle through much of the East, save the coastal Southeast and Mid Atlantic where a wave of low pressure just offshore spreads a shield of showers over much of the coastal plain. Cisco Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php