Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 1235 AM EDT Fri Apr 05 2019 Valid 12Z Fri Apr 05 2019 - 12Z Sun Apr 07 2019 ...More unsettled weather moving across the western U.S. through Saturday... ...Strong thunderstorms forecast for Texas Friday into Saturday... ...Rain moving across the eastern U.S. Friday with wintry weather for northern New England Friday night... A series of systems over the Northeast Pacific will continue to bring unsettled weather across a large portion of the western U.S. into the weekend as their attendant frontal systems move through the region. This will keep a good chance of rain along the West Coast through the weekend, as higher elevation snow and lower elevation rain spread across the Intermountain and Great Basin, followed by the northern and central Rockies Friday and Saturday. The heaviest precipitation over the next few days is expected to fall from northern California northward through the coastal ranges and Cascades of Oregon and Washington, with lesser amounts elsewhere across the Intermountain West. Flood watches have been posted across portions of this area. As the first in the series of systems moves towards the Plains, rain and thunderstorms are expected to overspread the central and northern Plains from Friday night through Saturday. Meanwhile, an upper-level disturbance will push across northern Mexico on Friday, entering the southern Plains on Saturday. This will lead to the onset of the dryline and bring the next round of thunderstorms into the southern Plains, some of which may be severe over Texas Friday into Saturday. Scattered thunderstorms are also expected to develop farther north over the northern and central Plains on Saturday as another cold front approaches from the north. Meanwhile, scattered thunderstorms can also be expected in the Southeast through the next couple of days due to a front languishing across the region. Moisture associated with waves of low pressure moving across the South and Ohio Valley and an associated disturbance aloft will spread rain eastward, moving through the East on Friday. Within its northern periphery, snow is expected to move across northern New England. The precipitation should begin to gradually move off the East Coast on Saturday as a low pressure center is forecast to move out of North Carolina and out to sea. Roth/Kong Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php