Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 212 PM EST Thu Feb 06 2025 Valid 00Z Fri Feb 07 2025 - 00Z Sun Feb 09 2025 ...Active winter weather pattern continues across large portions of the West and northern tier... ...Recent record warmth to continue from the Southern Plains into the Lower Mississippi Valley, Southeast and Florida... An active weather pattern to continue over the next few days across large portions of the U.S. A lead winter storm that produced a variety of winter weather impacts across the Northeast over the past 24 hours will be moving offshore of New England this evening, with diminishing winter weather precip. In this storms wake, blustery cold conditions expected from the Great Lakes into the Northeast. Lake effect snows likely to bring locally heavy lake effect snows downwind of Lake Superior across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and over northwest New York State to the east of Lake Ontario. As the lead storm moves off the New England coast this evening, another storm will move inland off the Pacific and into northern California. This storm will bring additional precipitation to large sections of California into early Friday morning, with the heaviest totals through the Sierra and along the entire California coast range. This storm will be the last in the recent series of storms that have affected areas of the West Coast from Northern California into the Pacific Northwest, resulting in much above average amounts of precipitation. After precipitation ends early Friday across California, drier weather is expected for the next week. As precipitation begins to end across California Friday, it will pick up in intensity across the Northern Rockies, spreading into the Northern High Plains Friday evening, toward the Upper Mississippi Valley by Friday night/early Saturday and across the Great Lakes during Saturday. This storm has the potential to produce impactful heavy snows across these areas with accumulations of 6-12 inches+ across the Northern Rockies and 4-6"+ eastward into the Northern Plains and Upper Mississippi. This storm will continue to press eastward Saturday night into Sunday across the Northeast and New England, with widespread heavy snows also possible across these areas. While active winter weather dominates much of the northern tier of the nation, spring and summer like weather will continue to bring much above average temperatures across the Southern Plains, Lower Mississippi Valley, Tennessee Valley, Southeast and Florida. Numerous record high temperatures have occurred over the past few days across these regions, with potential for additional record highs for the end of the work week and into the weekend across these areas. Much of the Southern Plains into the Lower Mississippi Valley, Southeast and Florida will see highs in the 70s and 80s over the next few days, with a few records above 90 degrees possible across Central to South Texas. Oravec Graphics available at https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php