Yep, Euro is nada for Thu/Fri....goes big for Vday though. I should say it really goes moderate for Vday, but there's potential there for a lot higher.
ORH had 0.47" of QPF which was about double of the 00z Euro run the night before. 12z Euro run was slightly better but still off as it only had 0.30" of QPF.
OTOH, the NAM had like 0.7" so it didn't fair any better.
I agree with Ryan that the snow growth made the high QPF models look more correct than they were. They were way too juicy in most areas.
I'm thinking 3-5ish right now for most of SNE and into S VT/S NH....a little less near the south coast and taering as you head north. But there is room for a stripe of 6-7" totals if things break right. On some of these runs, there is a banding sig....so that has to be watched. It would prob be pretty high ratios again too. Like someone gets 7" on 0.40" of QPF in a band.
Big coastal snowstorm on GFS today for 2/14. This threat has been there but bouncing around on every run on each model. The way guidance handle the PV will change these solutions and that feature is very difficult on the models.
Yes, how tilted a system is matters, but also how far northwest into that tilt does the big lift penetrate. Those aren't always the easiest to diagnose. The models could be a little off on both aspects and you miss by 25 miles on a big band.
I wouldn't have forecasted the band to be as far NW as it was based on guidance....the max H7 fronto was down near the south coast or even slightly offshore....so I would have had the max band going from like SE CT to maybe TAN or something.
Not an easy forecast.
Definitely some nice looking overnight runs. Those 06z NAM and GFS runs are developing a cross-hair sig too...I had said previously that the runs I checked didn’t really have it. But these beefed up cycles definitely do so someone could get a nice stripe of low end warning snows if that happens.
LOL. I loved Bode Miller. A New Hampshire native...from right near your new stomping grounds. I think he grew up in Franconia and did a lot of his early skiing on Cannon.