Short Range Forecast Discussion
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
244 PM EST Fri Nov 10 2023

Valid 00Z Sat Nov 11 2023 - 00Z Mon Nov 13 2023

...Heavy snow for the northern Washington Cascades tonight and Saturday
with gusty winds spreading eastward into northern Montana this weekend...

...Locally heavy rain possible for portions of coastal Texas and the
central Gulf Coast...

...Another day of potential record high temperatures for Florida on
Saturday...

A cold front will reach the Pacific Northwest tonight with increasing
intensities of lower elevation rain and mountain snow for
Washington/Oregon. One to two feet of snow is expected for the northern
Washington Cascades through Saturday evening with precipitation coming to
an end by Sunday morning. As the cold front continues eastward, winds will
increase in its wake through eastern Washington and northern Idaho into
northern Montana. Wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph are expected on Saturday into
Saturday night with gusts over 60 mph possible in the higher mountain
elevations. The cold front will move into the Great Plains on Sunday but
given its Pacific origins, temperatures for the central to northern Plains
will not fall much (in fact, a warming trend is expected) and the front
will be marked by drier air in its wake along with gusty winds.

Locally heavy rain will be possible for portions of the Texas Gulf Coast
through Saturday morning within a region of deep moisture in the vicinity
of a slow moving cold front in the western Gulf of Mexico. Periods of
steady light to moderate rain are expected for portions of the Gulf Coast
states on Saturday to the north of the same slow moving front which will
extend through northern Florida on Saturday. Locally heavy rain near a
surface low along the front will be possible from near the Mississippi
River Delta to the western Florida Panhandle tonight into Saturday while
locations south of the front across the central/southern Florida Peninsula
will see high temperatures reach the mid to upper 80s...near record high
territory. The cold front will continue to shift south on Sunday which
will allow for cooler temperatures into portions of northern Florida but a
return for heavy rain for southern Texas is likely ahead of an approaching
upper level trough.

Otto


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