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.
Unlike you, many of us will still be up tonight for the 0z runs.
When you retire for the evening, take note of the page number and compare it to what you see in the morning after you get up. The difference should give you some idea of how the 0z runs went.
The Op is still the far west outlier with 988 over DE, so hopefully it takes one of those better tracks shown on the ensemble, at least for those who would taint under the op scenario.