Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 333 PM EDT Sun Oct 09 2016 Valid 00Z Mon Oct 10 2016 - 00Z Wed Oct 12 2016 ...Heavy rains will decrease across New England as Matthew moves farther away... ...Heavy rain to continue across the Pacific Northwest... ...Snow expected for the portions of the Rockies and northern High Plains... The center of what was Hurricane Matthew will move on a northeasterly path away from the U.S. coast. Currently, light to moderate rainfall is falling along coastal New England. This activity will continue through Sunday evening and will taper off through early Monday morning. Some lingering showers can be expected for portions of Maine by Monday afternoon; however, by Tuesday morning the East Coast will be dry. In addition, temperatures will be slightly below normal for this time of year on Monday and Tuesday for the entire East Coast. The Pacific Northwest will continue to see light to moderate showers for the rest of Sunday and into Monday. Upper level energy will slide across the Pacific Northwest today and into Monday--along with it, onshore flow will continue bringing copious amounts of moisture across the region. The rainfall will finally taper off by Monday afternoon and shift to the northern Rockies and Montana. Higher elevation snow in the northern Rockies and parts of northern Montana will be possible on Monday as the heaviest precipitation falls across this area. As the upper level energy shifts east and south, the accompanying front at the surface will also begin to move to the southeast--and light amounts of precipitation will begin to spread across the central Rockies, northern Plains, and Upper Midwest. Snow will once again be possible on Tuesday for the higher elevations in south central Montana and portions of Wyoming. An upper level disturbance will move past the Desert Southwest to the central Plains on Monday morning. Showers across the Southwest will thus move east northeastward into the central Plains sometime Monday morning and will continue that path across the middle Mississippi valley by Tuesday morning. Expect precipitation amounts to be light. Fanning Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php