Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 400 AM EDT Mon Apr 15 2019 Valid 12Z Mon Apr 15 2019 - 12Z Wed Apr 17 2019 ...Breezy and colder in wake of departing East Coast storm system... ...Unsettled weather out West as next storm system enters lower 48 with potentially active weather across the central and southern U.S. for Wednesday... A strong area of low pressure will move through New England today, but the severe weather threat should be quickly winding down by late morning. A line of heavy rain and thunderstorms will shift into the western Atlantic early this afternoon leaving behind scattered rain and snow shower across northern New York and northern New England. A flood threat will remain on area rivers across northern New York into northern New England as well due to Sunday night's rainfall combined with snow melt over the weekend. Gusty winds and colder temperatures will affect the northern Mid-Atlantic into the Northeast today on the heels of the departing low center, but warmer weather will be in store for Tuesday. In fact, high temperatures in the 70s to low 80s are in store for a broad section of the country on Tuesday and Wednesday from the Central and Southern Plains to the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. Highs in the 90s will be likely closer to the Rio Grande Tuesday and Wednesday. A relative break in active weather for the nation will follow the departing storm from the Northeast but unsettled conditions will reach Oregon and California later today ahead of a Pacific cold front. This system will bring light to moderate rain to the West Coast today and tonight with light to moderate snowfall into the Sierra Nevada. The storm system will move across the Intermountain West on Tuesday with continued light to locally moderate mountain snow for the higher elevations of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. The western storm system will begin to strengthen Tuesday night into Wednesday as it moves across the Four Corners region. Out ahead of the upper level disturbance, showers and thunderstorms are expected along a warm front from the Central Plains into the Midwest Tuesday night along with scattered showers and thunderstorms into the Southern Plains. This storm system is expected to bring another round of potentially severe weather to the Central and Southern Great Plains for Wednesday, with details becoming better defined as the event draws closer in time. Otto Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php