Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 504 AM EDT Wed Apr 04 2018 Valid 12Z Wed Apr 04 2018 - 12Z Fri Apr 06 2018 ...A strong cold front is expected to bring severe weather, rain and gusty winds across the East Coast... ...More rain and snow expected for the Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies... The cold front that brought a round of severe weather to areas from the Ohio Valley to southeast Texas on Tuesday will continue pressing eastward today. The line of showers and thunderstorms will stretch from the Northeast to the central Gulf Coast today. The severe weather aspect of this system will continue--albeit not as intense as Tuesday--with a small portion of coastal Mid-Atlantic under a slight risk. Precipitation will begin moving offshore by Wednesday evening, with showers continuing mainly in New England and Florida. By late Wednesday night, all precipitation will come to an end. In addition, strong winds are expected behind the front across Mid-Atlantic and Northeast; thus, wind advisories are in effect across these regions today. Active weather will continue throughout the short term period across the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West. Upper level energy along with an influx of moisture will bring showers and higher elevation snow initially to the Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies today. By Thursday, an impressive flux of moisture along with a frontal system approaching the Pacific Northwest will bring another round of precipitation--this time extending southward into northern California. Showers and higher elevation snow will also begin to move farther south into the central Rockies by Thursday night. By Friday, snow showers will spread across the western portions of the northern and central Plains. Reinhart Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php