Short Range Forecast Discussion
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
358 PM EDT Fri Sep 25 2020

Valid 00Z Sat Sep 26 2020 - 00Z Mon Sep 28 2020

...There is a slight risk of severe thunderstorms over the Upper Great
Lakes...

...There is a slight risk of excessive rainfall over parts of the
Carolinas...

...Temperatures will be 10 to 20 degrees above average over the
Central/Southern High Plains...

...Elevated to critical risk for fire weather in the Rockies to the
Plains...

A slow moving front across the Upper Great Lakes will produce showers and
thunderstorms over the region from Friday evening into Sunday.  The SPC
has issued a slight risk of severe thunderstorms over the Upper Great
Lakes.  The main hazards will be frequent lighting, severe thunderstorm
wind gust, large hail, with a 10 % probability of hail larger than two
inches, and tornadoes over the Upper Great Lakes through Saturday morning.
 Moisture and the low pressure that once was Tropical Cyclone Beta
continues to move across the Southeast generating widespread showers and
some thunderstorms.  The WPC has issued a slight risk of excessive
rainfall over parts of the Carolinas through Saturday morning.  The heavy
rain associated with the showers and thunderstorms will produce mainly
localized scattered areas of flash flooding over the area through Saturday
morning.  Beta is forecast to weaken gradually through Sunday evening,
scattered showers associated with Beta's remnant moisture are possible in
the Mid-Atlantic on Saturday. Temperatures throughout the Southeast should
also moderate to seasonally mild levels on Saturday.

Elsewhere, temperatures will be 10 to 20 degrees above average over the
Central/Southern High Plains.  A strong cold front sweeping across the
Northwest ushers in colder temperatures over the Northern/Central High
Plains.  Pacific moisture will also accompany this cold front leading to
periods of rain in the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies through
Sunday morning.  Meanwhile, a elevated to critical risk for fire weather
in the Rockies to the Plains.  In addition there are air quality alerts
over parts of the Central Valley in California.

Ziegenfelder

Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php