Thanks. That valley is probably about your elevation. ~800’. They are still out having a blast. Made 3 snowmen so far and a huge snowfall fight with the neighbors kids and now working on a snow fort. They have been asking everyday when it’s going to snow ever since it started getting colder.
Roads are fine. My driveway did cover during the last very heavy burst where rates were like 2”/hr for a time but melted immediately after. And I’m close to the highest spot in the county.
Finished with just under 3". Went down to pick up a work packet from my son's school, which we can literally see in the valley about 300 feet below us from our backyard...and there was visibly less snow. Crazy...
Wanted to point something out when watching the details on the op runs. It’s not just the track of the surface low but also how much of an inverted trough feature there is. 12z euro track was slightly west but it was colder because there was less inverted trough and primary remnants. That trough prolongs and enhances the easterly fetch. We want the coastal to close off a circulation at low and mid levels as quick as possible. A stronger inverted trough delays that some and kills us with an inside ideal track.
The GFS is by far the lowest. It will adjust. Every other model has a qpf max of 2”+. There will be 20” totals from this storm it just won’t be over us. The Max is likely up in PA. That’s our problem...not qpf.
I thought the 6z op run was ok but the eps was kinda ugly. A LOT of inside runners that track the low pretty far up the bay before the turn east. This was the first ensemble run where I cringed when I looked at the slp plots.
I wouldn’t worry about the NAM. I can’t tell you how many times in the past few years at 36+ hours it’s given me snow on the back end of a storm that ended up no where close because the system was way more progressive. Gonna get some sleep.
The main globals have been crazy consistent with only slight adjustments given the time scale for the last 3 days. Some of the meso models will bounce around like this at range. Now...if the globals were to shift to a NAM like inside cutter...that would be a major jump.
lol its pretty much a non event for our area. Even up here its about 1" of snow to rain to dryslot. It mixes almost to state college lol. Be honest...it does bother you just a little to see it go that far west lol. I am not overly concerned by an at range NAM run...but I would rather see it going the right way then the wrong way.