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| Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 204 AM EST Sun Feb 08 2026 Valid 12Z Sun Feb 08 2026 - 12Z Tue Feb 10 2026 ...Dangerous Arctic airmass will persist over the eastern Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast through Sunday... ...Lower elevation rain and higher elevation snow continues for the Pacific Northwest to the northern Rockies Sunday... ...Warmer-than-average temperatures continue for much of the central to western U.S.... A bitterly cold Arctic airmass that has overspread the eastern Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast following a pair of cold front passages is expected to persist through Sunday. Forecast highs range from the single digits and teens for the Interior Northeast/New England to the 20s and 30s further south into the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic. Lingering gusty winds will lead to dangerously cold wind chills as low as the negative 30s across the Interior Northeast/New England and the single digits and teens elsewhere, particularly through the morning hours. Conditions are expected to moderate through the early part of the week, with highs Monday and Tuesday increasing by around 10 degrees or so each day. A Pacific system and accompanying influx of moisture will continue to overspread the Pacific Northwest east through the northern Great Basin and Rockies Sunday. The focus for the heaviest rainfall will shift southward from western Washington to western Oregon/far northern California today, with light to moderate rain showers for lower elevations/valleys inland through the northern Great Basin/Rockies. Cooling temperatures as a cold front sinks south Sunday night into Monday may lead to a wintry mix for some lower elevation locations, though accumulations should remain limited. Some precipitation is also expected into adjacent portions of the northern High Plains. Higher elevation mountain ranges from the southern Cascades to the northern Rockies will see moderate to locally heavy snowfall. Precipitation chances will quickly decrease into the day Monday as the influx of moisture ends, with the snow lingering longest for higher elevations of the northern Rockies. Another system looks to bring some moderate lower elevation rainfall and heavy high elevation snow further south into California and the Sierras Tuesday. Elsewhere, another clipper-like system moving along the U.S./Canadian border will bring wintry precipitation chances to the Upper Great Lakes Monday, with some light icing and snow showers expected. This system is also expected to bring some more moderate snowfall chances into Upstate New York/New England Tuesday. Increasing moisture ahead of a cold front moving through the Ohio/Tennessee Valleys southwest through the Mississippi Valley into the southern Plains will bring increasing shower and thunderstorm chances possibly as early as Tuesday morning, but more likely into the day on Tuesday. Warmer-than-average conditions will continue into the early part of next week across much of the central to western U.S. The greatest anomalies remain focused on the northern to central Plains, where highs as warm as the 60s and 70s are upwards of 35-40 degrees above early February averages. Some daily record-tying/breaking highs may be reached Monday across the central Plains. A cold front will bring closer to average conditions for portions of the northern Plains Monday, with highs in the 40s. While not quite as anomalous, conditions still remain above average across much of the Interior West, with highs into the 50s and 60s, and across the southern tier with 70s to low 80s from the southern Plains west through the Southwest to southern California. The incoming Pacific system will keep temperatures closer to average for the Pacific northwest, northern California, and northern Great Basin, with highs in the 40s and 50s. Improving conditions will also spread east into the Mississippi Valley today and then into portions of the Ohio/Tennessee Valleys and Southeast Monday, with highs increasing into the 40s and 50s to the north and 60s and 70s to the south. Putnam |
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