Kiss of death here is the dry pattern. I just received 15 inches of snow from an inland runner so I can work with less than perfect setups but if it goes dry then blah. Makes the torch days even worse because there is nothing to refresh it. This happened last March here. We had torch days but it refused to precipitate any more than just scattered stuff.
I am willing to roll the dice with 30 degrees and a firehose if that's what's coming.