Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 146 PM EDT Wed Oct 23 2024 Valid 00Z Thu Oct 24 2024 - 00Z Sat Oct 26 2024 ...Remarkably quiet weather conditions will continues across most of the country through the end of the week... ...Well above-average temperatures today across the Eastern U.S. and across the central/southern U.S. through Friday... Fairly uneventful fall weather will continue the remarkably dry weather pattern across the Continental U.S. through the end of the work week. A pair of fast moving, but fairly moisture starved frontal systems will progress across the country with limited changes resulting in above to well above average warm temperatures across the Southern Plains. A potential for record daily temperature records remains today across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic before the first front slides through later tonight into early Thursday morning; while near record heat expands from the Southern Plains into the Lower Mississippi and Central Gulf Coast states by Thursday into Friday. The second frontal system is starting to press out of the Pacific into the Northwest and Northern Rockies with limited shower and higher mountain light snow showers today before pressing into the northern and central Plains by Thursday. The only area of impactful cold will follow this front across portions of the Northwest, where Frost advisories and Freeze warnings are up for portions of western Oregon and far Northwest California. By Thursday, a few scattered showers may develop into isolated thunderstorms across the Missouri Valley into the western Midwest mainly after sunset. Further south stronger winds and lower humidity may be conducive for an Elevated fire weather risk for Thursday across eastern OK, southeast KS, southwest MO and far northwest AR; as highlighted by the Storm Prediction Center. Gallina Graphics available at https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php