Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 320 AM EST Fri Mar 06 2015 Valid 12Z Fri Mar 06 2015 - 12Z Sun Mar 08 2015 ...Weather will remain relatively quiet over much of the Nation... The cold front that brought snow and ice from the Southern Plains to the Mid-Atlantic and New England states on Thursday will continue to push well out into the Atlantic. Arctic air settling in behind the boundary will make for a chilly end to the work week across much of the south central and eastern U.S....and temperatures should remain below normal heading into the weekend. Also...the tail end of the boundary is expected to stall out and linger just south of Florida...causing a few days of scattered shower activity across the Sunshine state. An upper ridge anchored over the western U.S. will keep locations west of the Continental Divide warm and dry late this week. A closed low squeezing south of the ridge will edge east through northern Mexico this weekend. An increasing amount of moisture returning from the western Gulf of Mexico ahead of this feature should fuel light rain over Texas by early Sunday. Across the northern tier of the Nation...weak disturbances aloft could trigger light snow showers while streaking across the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Friday and Saturday. Gerhardt Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php