Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 330 AM EDT Tue Mar 26 2019 Valid 12Z Tue Mar 26 2019 - 12Z Thu Mar 28 2019 ...Active weather pattern across the West and relatively quiet east of the Rockies... Much of the central and eastern U.S. will be relatively uneventful weatherwise through the middle of this week as a large surface high governs the overall weather pattern. The front and surface low that produced the widespread rainfall across the Southeast U.S. on Monday has exited the East Coast with the exception of the Florida Peninsula, where scattered showers and a few storms are expected. The next chance of rain returns to the Midwest and Great Lakes region early Thursday as a cold front approaches these areas. The weather pattern will be more impactful across the western third of the nation as two separate frontal boundaries pass through. The cold front currently across the Intermountain West is expected to produce patchy areas of light rain and mountain snow from northern California to the northern Rockies. The second and stronger system arrives in California by Wednesday morning and should result in moderate to heavy rain for the lower elevations of central and northern California, and heavy snow for the Sierra Nevada and Siskiyou Mountains. D. Hamrick Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php