Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 259 PM EST Wed Nov 23 2016 Valid 00Z Thu Nov 24 2016 - 00Z Sat Nov 26 2016 ...Heavy rain possible over the Northwest Coast... ...Heavy snow possible over the Northern Cascades and the Olympic Mountains... A front extending from the Western Ohio Valley to the Central Gulf Coast will move eastward to the Appalachians and modifies while connecting to another trailing boundary. Snow and rain will develop over parts of the Upper Mississippi Valley to the Great Lakes that will move into the Northeast while extending northwestward into the Upper Great Lakes by Thanksgiving evening. The snow will be confined to Northern New England on Thursday evening into Friday. Rain will develop along and ahead of the front from the Western Ohio Valley southward to the Lower Mississippi Valley that will become less organized on Thanksgiving morning to an area of rain showers over parts of the Mid-Atlantic to Eastern Ohio Valley and the Central/Southern Appalachians. Ziegenfelder Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php