Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 218 AM EST Sat Nov 12 2016 Valid 12Z Sat Nov 12 2016 - 12Z Mon Nov 14 2016 ...Unseasonably warm temperatures expected from the northern Rockies to the Upper Midwest... An expansive area of high pressure will keep the overwhelming majority of the eastern and central U.S. dry through the weekend. A weakening cold front will bring some scattered showers and thunderstorms to portions of southern and western Texas today. The same frontal boundary will linger across the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Peninsula, with only a few isolated showers possible along the east coast of Florida. By Sunday afternoon, a wave of low pressure is forecast to develop along the front off the Florida/Georgia coast, which will then move northeastward. This area of low pressure will bring a chance of rain showers to portions of the Southeast and southern Mid-Atlantic coastline by Sunday night into Monday morning. A cold front will move into the West Coast today, with rain continuing across the Pacific Northwest into early afternoon before beginning to taper off as the front moves inland and weakens, bringing a few rain or snow showers to the Intermountain West. The Northwest will remain dry until another frontal system spreads rain back into the coast on Sunday. Temperatures will be unseasonably warm through the weekend from the northern Rockies to the Upper Midwest. Afternoon high temperatures are forecast to be 15 to 25 degrees above average across these areas through Sunday. A dry cold front forecast to into the northern plains by early Sunday morning will not bring an end to the warm temperatures, due to the Pacific nature of the air mass behind the front. Ryan Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php