BTW is it nice for you to be out of urban heat island hell? I remember all your obs from past events basically 40 degrees and sad hahaha. Do you take some trips up to Canaan at all?
If the NAM is right though we ride that line, keep the heavies going until the flip and then it's basically zip outta here quick anyway. But yeah, like you said, really close on those soundings.
It's 5 inches for DC before sleet, it's pretty much the best case scenario. The heavy precip doesn't even stick around for that long after the changeover anyway.
I was thinking the same thing. Anything is preferable to white rain and 35 degrees. This will almost certainly at least start off white for us. Should be fun.
Solid event, I’d sign for the 3 inches that gives me right now if I could. 3 inches + sleet + snow showers + a cold weekend is about as good as it gets most of the time for us. Gotta just roll with it, can’t be punting events like this as a mid Atlantic weenie.
Yes it would worry me more if the NAM was in line with everything and then started trending away within 48 hours. This run appears to be a slight trend towards the globals with a better push of colder air at higher levels to start. Of course this season you never go wrong choosing the warmest model so there's that too.