Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 329 PM EDT Mon Apr 08 2019 Valid 00Z Tue Apr 09 2019 - 00Z Thu Apr 11 2019 ...A rapidly intensifying major winter storm to bring heavy snows through the Northern Rockies, heavy snows and blizzard conditions to portions of the Northern/Central Plains into the Upper Mississippi Valley Tuesday through Thursday... ...The rapidly deepening storm will also bring potentially damaging winds from the Southwest, Great Basin, into portions of the Central to Southern Plains. Gusts over hurricane force likely... ..Wet weather, locally heavy rains and severe weather possible across the Southeast Monday night through Tuesday... ...Additional Spring snows likely for Northern New England... A major early spring winter storm will be developing tonight into Wednesday as strong mid to upper level height falls push inland across the Pacific Northwest tonight, through the Northern Rockies and Great Basin on Tuesday and into the Central Rockies and Central to Southern High Plains on Wednesday. Heavy precipitation, that has been focused into portions of the Pacific Northwest over the past few days will be pushing inland into the Northern Great Basin/Northern Rockies tonight. Increasing areal coverage and intensity of snow likely through the Northern Rockies Tuesday, spreading into portions of the Northern to Central Plains into the Upper Mississippi Tuesday night into Wednesday, continuing into Thursday across portions of the Central to Northern Plains into the Upper Mississippi Valley. Widespread heavy snows likely from this storm over the next few days, with amounts in excess of a foot likely through the Northern Rockies and across portions of the Northern to Central Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. This storm is expected to intensify rapidly late Tuesday into Wednesday. This will produce increasing winds across a large regions from the Southwest, Great Basin and across much of the middle section of the nation from the Southern Plains to the Northern Plains. These potentially high winds will produce life-threatening travel conditions with Blizzard conditions possible over portions of the Central/Northern Plains into the Upper Mississippi Valley late Tuesday into Thursday. To the south of the region of heavy snows, damaging winds likely from the Southwest, across portions of the Great Basin on Tuesday and into the Southern and Central Plains during Wednesday. Sustained winds of 30 to 50 mph, with gusts over hurricane force possible across these regions. Ahead of the developing western to central U.S. storm, wet weather will persist tonight into Tuesday across the southeastern U.S. associated with an area of low pressure pushing east across this region. Moderate to locally heavy rains possible across this region, along with the potential for severe weather from thunderstorms tonight and again Tuesday afternoon. Besides the developing winter storm across portions of the western to central U.S., wintry weather will maintain its grip on portions of Northern New England. A lead area of winter weather currently affecting northern New England Monday afternoon will be winding down tonight. This will be followed by potential for additional snowy weather from late Tuesday afternoon into Tuesday night and early Wednesday. Oravec Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php