Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 336 PM EST Thu Jan 29 2015 Valid 00Z Fri Jan 30 2015 - 00Z Sun Feb 01 2015 ...More snow on the way for the Great Lakes to the Northeast... ...Widespread rain and snow expected across the Southwest U.S.... Another round of wintry weather is on the way from the Great Lakes to New England as a clipper system races across the Northeast on Friday. Light to moderate snow across the Great Lakes area this afternoon will slide into the lower lakes and New England by tonight. According to the WPC winter weather graphics, most locations from the lower lakes into New England should see less than about six inches, except across Maine, where accumulations as high as a foot or more are possible. Farther south across the Mid-Atlantic, a mixture of rain and snow is likely and behind the system, the weekend will begin very chilly with temperatures below average as surface high pressure takes over. Across the Southwest and Four Corners region, conditions will continue to be increasingly wet this evening and into the weekend as an upper level trough moves inland over Northern Mexico. Near the surface, low-level winds will advect plenty of moisture into these areas, fueling widespread moderate to heavy precipitation across the Southwest. Moderate to heavy snow is expected in the higher terrain, especially across New Mexico, while heavy rain is expected farther south and west in the lower elevations of southern New Mexico and Arizona. This precipitation is expected to move into the southern and central Plains by Saturday morning where places across the Texas panhandle into Kansas could see a rain/snow mix, with plain rain expected farther south. Santorelli Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php