Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 344 PM EDT Sat Apr 03 2021 Valid 00Z Sun Apr 04 2021 - 00Z Tue Apr 06 2021 ...Temperatures will be 10 to 25 degrees above normal over parts of the Northern/Central High Plains/Plain and over the Upper Middle Mississippi Valley... ...Elevated Risks of fire weather are in place for the Plains supported by warm temperatures in the western and central CONUS... A cold dome of high pressure over the Southeast will continue to moderate over the next few days. Frost Advisories are posted over parts of North and Southern Carolina through Easter Sunday morning due to the associated cold temperatures. Broad upper-level ridging over the Western and North-Central U.S. can expect temperatures to be 10 to 25 degrees above normal over parts of the Northern/Central High Plains/Plain and over the Upper Middle Mississippi Valley through Monday evening. The Southwest should see temperatures in the upper 90s and nearing 100 degrees, while the 80s are forecast for Northern/Central portions of the Plains. These warm temperatures combined with dry soils, low relative humidity, and gusty winds will lead to the potential for fire weather for parts of the Plains. Per the Storm Prediction Center, today's Fire Weather Outlook indicates an Elevated Risk across the Northern Plains. On Sunday, the SPC has Elevated Risks across portions of Montana and parts of the Southern/Central. Meanwhile, a front moving onshore over the Pacific Northwest overnight Saturday will move eastward to the Upper Midwest by Monday evening. The system will produce light rain and higher elevation snow over parts of the Northwest and into parts of the Northern Rockies on Saturday evening through Monday evening. The associated boundary extending from the Northern Plains to the Great Lakes and the Mid-Atlantic will help produce showers and thunderstorms over parts of the Upper Midwest into the Central Plains, as moisture from the Gulf of Mexico streams northward over the Plains. As the front slowly moves eastward, the showers and thunderstorms will continue over parts of the Upper Great Lakes into parts of the Middle Mississippi Valley, as rain develops along the warm front over parts of the Great Lakes into the Ohio Valley on Monday. Elsewhere, upper-level energy and gulf moisture will produce rain and showers /thunderstorms over parts of Texas from Saturday evening to Monday evening. There will be a break overnight Sunday into Monday morning. Ziegenfelder Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php