Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 151 AM EST Sun Jan 13 2019 Valid 12Z Sun Jan 13 2019 - 12Z Tue Jan 15 2019 ...Winter storm expected to produce widespread snow and some freezing rain from the Ohio Valley to the mid-Atlantic region... The main weather event making headlines through the remainder of the weekend will be the ongoing winter storm across the eastern U.S. With the occluded over Tennessee weakening Sunday morning, a new surface low is developing near the southeast U.S. coast, and this will result in enhanced precipitation across much of the mid-Atlantic region and extending southward across the Carolinas. Winter storm warnings are in effect from western North Carolina to the DelMarVa region for various winter weather impacts. Areas across central and northern Virginia into Maryland have the potential of 5 to 10 inches of snow by Sunday night, with locally higher amounts possible. Significant sleet and freezing rain is expected across southwest Virginia and western North Carolina, with ice accretion perhaps exceeding a quarter inch for some areas. There will likely be severe disruptions to travel along with the potential for power outages, particularly for those areas that get significant icing. Warmer temperatures over central/eastern North Carolina and into southeast Virginia will keep this event mostly a cold rain. Elsewhere across the continental U.S., a storm system over the eastern Pacific will approach southern California on Monday, and result in enhanced rainfall for parts of central and southern California through Monday night as a result, with some rainfall totals in the 1 to 2 inch range for the coastal mountain ranges. Dry conditions are expected from the Pacific Northwest to the central U.S. with a large surface high governing the weather pattern. Most of New England should also remain dry as the winter storm stays south of that region. D. Hamrick Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php