Short Range Forecast Discussion
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
410 AM EDT Sun Apr 03 2022

Valid 12Z Sun Apr 03 2022 - 12Z Tue Apr 05 2022

...Increasingly stormy conditions expected to impact the Pacific Northwest
to the northern High Plains for the next couple of days as a deep low
pressure system moves onshore...

...Heavy rain and severe thunderstorm threat expand across the Deep South
for the next couple of days as rain/snow moves across the northern tier...

...Critical Fire Weather Risk today over the central Plains and southern
High Plains...

A potent low pressure system will bring increasingly active weather into
the western U.S. towards the Plains through the next couple of days.  In
the mean time, a compact low pressure system is currently organizing over
the northeastern portion of the U.S.  This system is forecast to intensify
as it slides relatively quickly off the New England coast later tonight. 
Some bands of rain/snow are expected to rotate through New England today. 
The relatively fast motion of this system will limit the snowfall amounts.
Nevertheless, some locally enhanced amounts of wet snow are possible
particularly over the higher elevations of upstate New York into interior
New England today into tonight.  Another fast-moving low pressure wave is
forecast to spread light amounts of rain/snow across the northern Plains
today before moving through the Great Lakes on Monday.

Farther south, thunderstorm threat will be suppressed into southern
Florida for the next couple of days as a cold front becomes nearly
stationary.  Moisture from the Gulf of Mexico will begin to turn north
toward the southern tier states and converge with a cold front slowly
moving through the central Plains.  This will lead to a steady expansion
of showers and thunderstorm activities from the southern Plains into the
Deep South during the next couple of days.  The rain and storms are
expected to intensify as they reach into the Deep South later Monday into
Tuesday with the possibility of flash flooding and severe weather.

Meanwhile, a potent low pressure system is forecast to bring increasingly
stormy weather across the Pacific Northwest through the northern High
Plains the next couple of days.  This system will dump heavy snow along
the Cascades before expanding into the northern Rockies together with high
winds.  Near the Pacific Northwest coast, moderate to heavy rain and
scattered thunderstorms will be accompanied with strong and gusty winds,
especially on Monday.  Heavy snow will be measured in feet over the
northern Cascades by Monday.  By Monday night into Tuesday morning, the
low pressure system is forecast to impact the northern High Plains/Rockies
with high winds as rain/snow moves through the northern Plains.

Kong


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