Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 234 AM EST Sun Feb 26 2017 Valid 12Z Sun Feb 26 2017 - 12Z Tue Feb 28 2017 ...More snow for the western U.S. and great lakes, and rain returns to the Gulf Coast region... Now that the strong cold front has cleared the East Coast, expect a return to temperatures that are more typical of February, compared to the past few days that were a preview of spring. A surface high pressure area will settle in behind the front across the eastern U.S., and it will be accompanied by sunny to partly cloudy skies along with temperatures mainly in the 40s and 50s on Sunday afternoon. The exception to this will be the Great Lakes region, where a weak impulse crossing overhead will be enough to generate periods of snow showers from northern Minnesota to upstate New York. By Monday morning, return flow from the Gulf of Mexico ahead of the next storm system over Texas will begin advecting increased moisture northbound across much of the southern Plains and the Deep south. Numerous showers and storms are likely to develop during the first half of the work week as the warm front lifts northward, with some locations getting in excess of an inch of rainfall by Tuesday morning, especially from southern Arkansas to northern Alabama. Across the northwestern quadrant of the nation, a developing low pressure system and accompanying upper level disturbance will bring more widespread coverage of coastal rain and mountain/inland snow showers for Sunday. More of the Intermountain West will likely be affected going into Monday as the frontal boundary moves farther inland. Heavy snow is likely for the higher mountain ranges. Hamrick Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php