Agreed, keeping the troff positively tilted like the Euro is key here. The blocking is never going to force a 976MB bomb over W KY to reform east of Ocean City.
You can see from comparing the CMC, GFS and Euro, everything very dependent on how much the PV knocks down the heights ahead of the storm. Seems similar to 1/26/11, without the morning round.
This is why I hate solutions that involve a piece of energy ejecting through the ridge. It never works out. Haven't gotten any threats to survive inside day 6 this year.
Maybe we should all go outside look up at the sky and yell at the storm to make more fookin cold air it'll trend snowier.
I'm out of ideas for saving this winter.
If I drank every time I heard an on air weather personality say "It's going to feel more like spring" this winter, I'd have had enough alcohol to kill herd of elephants.