Seems like the timing and rate of intensification of the low will significantly determine snowfall. This is one of more difficult things to predict. I think we need more time to figure this out.
The precipitation shield to the north west of the low on the 0Z NAM just doesn't look right... looks too small for such a strong low. It's not like there's a monster high to the north.
As Forky suggested, let's wait until the wave arrives in the SW second half of tomorrow before getting excited or dejected. This is an important feature in the evolution of this storm.
Before we get hopes too high, we need the other real models to output significant hits for the region. They are trending that way, but slowly. It was nice to see the 12Z RGEM handling the SW energy like the EURO.
January 26th, 2016 and January 4th, 2018 blizzards were south/east of the benchmark and unloaded on the region. Part of this is where the lows came from prior to arriving near the benchmark.
Yeah...tenuous at 5 days out. Inland runner and whiff still on the table IMO. Whiff still my biggest concern...but we could all be hoping for an eastern correction in the days ahead. Still nice to see these runs tonight.