Garrett County may get some orographic enhancement from the LP as it’s in our area. Upslope would come on the back-end as the low is heading NE away from the area. You want to root for the follow up wave that GFS has been keying in to deepen the storm and ‘bomb’ it out for SNE. That energy as it crosses the mountains and deepens the SLP off the east coast would provide some extra lift for upslope snow showers.
18z GFS shows this scenario. Garrett County and the mountains get more snow from the upslope than the initial storm.
That 2nd piece of energy (which also helped to ‘ruin’ our threat) keeps getting stronger which I think is one of the reasons why this has trended towards a big event in SNE. Too bad we couldn’t have tapped into that.
It seems that globals tonight at 00z must be getting some new data that they’ve all made this shift to a colder/snowier solution. Euro will be telling in an hour.
While we wait for UK and Euro, I wanted to share 850s on the CMC too. While CMC evolution is different than the GFS, similar story with colder solution than CMC 12z.
Pretty amazing difference on the GFS with 850 temps. At its warmest, 18z had the 850 line just west of Dulles into Loudoun County while 00z keeps it down in Charles County, MD.