Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 254 PM EST Wed Nov 30 2016 Valid 00Z Thu Dec 01 2016 - 00Z Sat Dec 03 2016 ...Rain expected to move off the East Coast Thursday morning... ...A new storm is forecast to bring wintry precipitation over the southern Rockies, and rain across Texas on Friday... The low pressure system that brought widespread snow to portions of the northern Plains and Upper Midwest will continue to weaken as it tracks across the Great Lakes. The associated cold front will move steadily eastward, ending the rain along the Eastern Seaboard by Thursday morning. However, a low pressure center is forecast to develop near the departing front tonight. This should bring a period of moderate snow across northern Maine Thursday morning and afternoon before the low moves away into the Canadian Maritimes in the evening. Thereafter, mixed precipitation is expected to linger across the Great Lakes and into western and northern New England as a trough of low pressure remains in the vicinity through Friday. Out west, snow showers are expected to move across the interior mountains in the wake of a weak/dissipating cold front. An upper-level low is forecast to form over the Desert Southwest on Friday and then drops into Baja and northwestern Mexico by Saturday. Southerly flow well ahead of this system is expected to bring moisture northward from the western Gulf of Mexico into Texas. Expect rain to expand northward across Texas Friday afternoon and evening with wintry precipitation likely farther north over northern and central New Mexico. Meanwhile, rain persisting across coastal Pacific Northwest as well as snow in the Cascades will be reinforced by the arrival of the next storm from the Pacific on Friday. Kong Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php