The”what’s the alternative” has never worked for me. That’s what real science does-finds its way to the correct resolution. You have said you enjoy looking at the projected examples. . I enjoy correct, logically assembled information. Predicting a monster snowstorm,or zero , Before the vital factor has even hit the west coast is ridiculous. It can’t be done so why produce such?
And for a technical suggestion, that 500 mb vorticity chart is a stringy mess like a human genome chart . You enjoy the lead up while I enjoy the nowcasts of an event. The lead up don’t mean much when it is so incredibly erratic that’s it’s an admission of “it can’t be predicted”