Looked to me like the Euro op is about 6 hrs faster than at 0z. With the improvement in the northern stream, if it can slow down we can pull it further north.
This was my original point: "If we see uncle starting to get a clue, and/or the Canadian, then I'll believe we have a real shot."
CMC finally got a clue at 0z.
Quite the contrary. If you look at the CMC 12z run there was nothing there. At least they have an actual storm there now. So my confidence has actually improved, which was my original point earlier.
This reminds me somewhat of the Blizzard of 1978 which might not have happened without the phase of systems. And we didn't know whether they would phase almost up until go time. But there was a lot less technology available back then to determine that. The models were rudimentary.
If we see uncle starting to get a clue, and/or the Canadian, then I'll believe we have a real shot. Unless or until that happens, these on again off again runs of the GFS and Euro are meaningless. But that had better happen very soon.
Canadian and uncle have never been on board since they can't shake that sw energy, and the latest GFS has that sw energy digging again, and the northern stream was weaker as well.
On the Op, once that energy in the sw wanes, the low blows up into a 946 monster well east of Nova Scotia.
Future runs will have to eliminate that energy faster if we are to have a chance for a monster blowup closer to home.