Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 215 AM EST Sun Jan 14 2018 Valid 12Z Sun Jan 14 2018 - 12Z Tue Jan 16 2018 ...Another round of significant cold to impact the Plains and Midwest early this week... ...Wintry mix expected into portions of central Texas Monday night... The big story over the lower 48 through Tuesday will be the cold over the Plains into the Midwest. While cold temperatures may only break a handful of records, snow and a wintry mix is expected for locations down south who do not typically see wintry precipitation. A strong cold front will move through the northern Plains today with snow showers accompanying the boundary. While snowfall accumulations are expected to remain light, locally higher totals can be expected in the upslope regions of the northern and central High Plains through Monday and near the track of the surface low through Minnesota into the Great Lakes region. Temperatures will be near normal today across the central and northern Plains but by Monday, forecast highs stay below zero for much of the Dakotas into Minnesota and sub-freezing highs will reach as far south as the northern Texas panhandle into northern Oklahoma. These numbers will be roughly 15 to 30 degrees below mid-January averages. The anomalous cold will continue south and east for Tuesday and by the time the front reaches the southern Plains, a rain/snow mix is expected to transition to freezing rain/sleet and eventually snow as colder air filters southward into central Texas. Light accumulations will also be possible into southern Oklahoma, Arkansas and northern Louisiana Monday night into Tuesday. Out West, warm and mostly dry conditions will stay in place until a cold front reaches the west coast early Tuesday morning bringing a round of rain from central California to Oregon and Washington. This first round of rainfall is expected to be beneficial given below average precipitation over the past few weeks for the region, but heavier rainfall will be possible for the Northwest and central/northern California by late in the week. Otto Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php