Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 405 AM EDT Mon Jul 6 2015 Valid 12Z Mon Jul 6 2015 - 12Z Wed Jul 8 2015 ***Stormy weather from the southern Plains to the Great Lakes*** ***Heavy rain event for parts of the southern Plains*** ***Hot conditions for most of the western U.S.*** The weather pattern over the nation through Tuesday will feature a cold front sinking southward across the Great Plains and Midwest states, and a weakening warm front over the Mid-Atlantic region. The cold front over the central U.S. is considered a strong one by July standards, and will have enough forcing associated with it to result in numerous showers and storms extending from Texas to the Great Lakes. Pleasantly cool weather will settle in behind this boundary and humidity levels will drop. This cold front will likely have the greatest impacts over parts of Oklahoma and northern Texas as the southern portion of this front stalls over that region. A heavy rainfall event is forecast to materialize by Monday night and continuing through Tuesday as deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico gets lifted upward by the front. Several inches of rainfall is a good possibility and an excessive rainfall outlook has been posted by WPC. The same front moving across the Plains will also take the edge off the recent heat over Montana, Wyoming, and parts of Utah and Idaho, with more seasonal temperatures expected for the next few days. Southwest of the boundary across the interior Northwest and Great Basin, hot weather is forecast to continue into the beginning of the week with widespread 90s and lower 100s expected. This is where an upper level ridge will prevail. Monsoonal moisture in place over the interior West will allow for the development of scattered showers and storms each afternoon. D. Hamrick Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php