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FXUS01 KWBC 150649
PMDSPD

Short Range Forecast Discussion
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
248 AM EDT Wed Oct 15 2025

Valid 12Z Wed Oct 15 2025 - 12Z Fri Oct 17 2025

...There is a chance of showers and thunderstorms over parts of
the Northern Plains to the Southern Plains and Upper Great Lakes
on Wednesday and Thursday....

...Heavy snow over parts of the Sierra Mountains on Wednesday and
over the Northern Rockies on Thursday...

On Wednesday, low pressure over the Great Basin moves
northeastward into South-Central Canada by Friday. The associated
front moves from the Great Basin to the Upper Mississippi Valley
and Central Plains/Southern High Plains by the seventeenth,
Friday. The system will create rain over parts of Central
California on Wednesday. Meanwhile, rain and higher-elevation snow
will develop over the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Great Basin
on Wednesday and the Northern Intermountain Region/the Northern
Rockies on Thursday into Friday.

Moreover, showers and thunderstorms will develop over parts of the
Central/Southern Rockies on Wednesday into Thursday morning.
Further, rain will also develop over parts of the Northern/Central
Plains, the Middle Mississippi Valley, and the Great Lakes on
Wednesday. Rain will continue on Thursday over the Northern
Plains, the Middle Mississippi Valley, and the Great Lakes. In
addition, the weather will remain unsettled over the Northern
Intermountain Region and Northern Rockies on Thursday into Friday.
Additionally, weak onshore flow will help develop rain over the
Pacific Northwest on Thursday afternoon into Friday.


Ziegenfelder


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

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