Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 259 PM EST Tue Feb 25 2025 Valid 00Z Wed Feb 26 2025 - 00Z Fri Feb 28 2025 ...Clipper system to bring scattered rain and snow showers from the Midwest to the Appalachians/interior Northeast through the next couple of days... ...Another clipper to reach the upper Great Lakes on Thursday will likely bring light snowfall... ...Above to well above average temperatures expected to persist for most of the country... Areas of locally heavy rainfall and high-elevation snowfall across the Pacific Northwest will continue to wind down through this evening as a Pacific cyclone dissipates after landfall. Light snow from the remnants of the cyclone will linger a bit longer across the northern Rockies into Wednesday morning before tapering off by the afternoon. Meanwhile, a piece of the upper-level energy associated with the dissipating cyclone will spawn a clipper low pressure system over the northern Rockies and advance it quickly into the upper Midwest tonight, followed by the lower Great Lakes Wednesday into Thursday. Mainly light to locally moderate amounts of precipitation are expected with this system. Areas from the lower Great Lakes to northern New England can expect a few inches of snow from this system Wednesday night through Thursday. The next clipper will then bring a few inches of snow across the upper Great Lakes on Thursday. Farther south, a swath of rain with a few embedded thunderstorms are expected to form ahead of a cold front trailing southwest from the first clipper system. These activities are expected to move across the Ohio Valley Wednesday night followed by the Appalachians on Thursday. The rain may skip over the interior section of the Mid-Atlantic before reaching the Eastern Seaboard later in the afternoon on Thursday. Much of the rest of the country will enter a period of dry weather with above normal temperatures through the next few days, with highs upwards of 10-20 degrees above average for many locations. The interior Pacific Northwest and the Rockies will be the exception with slightly below normal temperatures. The warmest locations will be in the Desert Southwest where high temperatures could reach 90 degrees again Wednesday afternoon. Kong Graphics available at https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php