Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 336 PM EDT Sat Oct 27 2018 Valid 00Z Sun Oct 28 2018 - 00Z Tue Oct 30 2018 ...Widespread precipitation and gusty winds continue across the Northeast this evening, with wintry weather expected across portions of northern New England... ...Heavy rainfall possible for the Pacific Northwest... An early season coastal low will continue to track north from the Mid-Atlantic into the Northeast Saturday evening. Windy conditions with widespread precipitation will persist across the Northeast into the overnight hours. Winter Weather Advisories are in effect for the Adirondack region of Upstate New York and portions of northern New England, where a wintry mix, resulting in accumulating ice and a few inches of wet snow, is expected. As the low tracks north into southern Quebec, less windy conditions with scattered precipitation is expected across the Northeast on Sunday. Further west, precipitation will continue to move east out ahead of an area of low pressure strengthening over the northern Plains and upper Midwest Saturday evening. This system is expected to move quickly to the southeast, dropping into the Ohio valley on Sunday, before bringing some organized rains back into portions of the northern Mid-Atlantic and Northeast late Sunday into early Monday. Below normal temperature are expected to continue across much of the Ohio valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast into Monday, while warmer temperatures extend further east across the lower Mississippi valley Sunday and into the Southeast on Monday. A moisture-laden frontal system moving into the Northwest is expected to produce some heavier precipitation amounts across western Washington and Oregon, with the heaviest amounts falling along the coastal ranges and Cascades. Some locally heavy amounts can also be expected further to the east across the northern Rockies of northern Idaho and western Montana. In addition to heavier precipitation, this system will introduce cooler temperatures, with below normal temperatures extending from the Northwest into the northern Great Basin and Rockies by Monday. Across the remainder of the West into the Plains, above normal temperatures are forecast to continue through the remainder of the weekend into Monday. On Sunday, the combination of warm temperatures and gusty winds will result in elevated fire weather conditions for the Sierra Front into west-central Nevada. Pereira Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php