It's a cliche, but this Euro run is actually really important. It needs to keep trending better and look more like the GFS. Otherwise, this thing might be starting to slip away from us.
It's super easy to be a negative troll in this region. You are usually right, and, when you are wrong, no one comes back to you about it because they are busy enjoying the snow.
Cutoff zone.
The UKMET is really not good if you want big totals, it appears it hits the northern tier with some CCB snows as the low departs. I have learned not to rely on that because it rarely happens.
It’s a competition between you and MN Transplant for who has the saddest obs during these events. I could easily see this thing being wire-to-wire rain for you if we miss the CCB snows.
Getting near the time where we drop the charade and have to acknowledge the hard reality that this will not be a region-wide crowd pleaser and there will be a screwzone. Snow is a brutal sport. If you live on a barge in the Potomac in SE DC, you are getting a lot of rain.
We all know no one would be shocked to wake up tomorrow to a 06z GFS run that has the southern MD crew buzzing and psuhoffman writing up a 1,000 word explanation of what happened.
Canadian is pretty cold in the areas getting heavy snow. This storm will have some brutal cutoffs as depicted. It'll be a forum divider along some line, TBD.
Maybe just a New England thing, but the para-GFS is always warm, just like the ICON. It frequently shows my place in Northern NH mixing with rain. Something is wrong with the thermals on both of those models. I wouldn't get hung up on them.
I picked the best time to head south for 10 days. I look set up to get a foot or so down here in MD and then head back up to NNE just in time for things to get active again probably.
FWIW, the CMC was the best model on the last coastal in terms of track. It didn't waver for days while the Euro and GFS waffled around, the former too far NW and the latter too far SE.