Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 310 AM EST Thu Feb 04 2016 Valid 12Z Thu Feb 04 2016 - 12Z Sat Feb 06 2016 ...Heavy rain possible from the Southern Mid-Atlantic Coast to the Southeast Coast and along parts of New England Coast... ...Heavy snow over parts of the Cascades... ...Heavy rain possible over parts of the Olympic Peninsula... Front along the East Coast will slowly move eastward out over the Western Atlantic by Friday evening. Moisture pooling along the boundary will aid in producing rain from parts of the Eastern Gulf Coast, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic Coast, and into New England Coast on Thursday morning moving off the Southeast/Mid-Atlantic Coast by Friday afternoon and moving off New England Coast by Friday evening. Upper-level energy moving over the Great Lakes will produce light snow downwind from the Great Lakes on Thursday. A front over the Upper Midwest will move eastward from the Upper Mississippi Valley to the Lower Great Lakes by Friday evening. The system will produce light snow over parts of the Upper Mississippi Valley that will move into the Upper Great Lakes on Friday. Furthermore, another area of upper-level energy over the Pacific Northwest will move southeastward to the Southern Plains to the Upper Mississippi Valley by Friday night. The energy will produce coastal rain and higher elevation snow over parts of the Pacific Northwest and snow over the Northern Intermountain Region on Thursday morning. The rain and higher elevation snow will end briefly on Friday morning over the Northwest. The snow will move into parts of the Northern/Central Rockies by Thursday evening moving into parts of the Northern/Central Plains by Friday morning and into the Upper Mississippi Valley/Upper Great Lakes by Friday evening. A Pacific front will move into the Pacific Northwest on Friday. The system will produce rain and higher elevation snow over parts of the Northwest starting on late Friday morning and expanding eastward by Friday evening. Ziegenfelder Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php