This is what I was just explaining to pickles...yes, antecedent airmass is a limiting factor, but we are advecting in a colder airmass and with more ease the father north and east one is.
I'm really going to get worried if we see the Schwarz shuffle north on the 12z suite...may scramble for a generator this wknd. Still hopeful for a savage sleeting right now.
Yea, I wasn't trying to argue for a snowier evolution in posting that H85 morphology, but rather just calling attention to the subtle, yet notable trend.
We aren't there yet in terms of bigs snows, and are unlikely to get there.
Just to be clear-