It's doing that already on the Icon, but may be too strong and/or unable/unwilling to move. Even if it cooperates, however, we still need the vort controlling our storm to cooperate as well. Iow, the Canadian vortex is only 1/2 of our problem.
Compared to the runs of the last 5 days+ of the Gefs, there's finally some life in the 18z snowfall total. I didn't go into how or when. I'm looking for totals >1"!
I haven't gone into details on how and when it falls, but suffice to say the Geps has the best snowfall for the 12z run. I put the link to Pivotal if you want to delve into it further.
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=cmceens&p=sn10_acc-mean-imp&rh=2026010712&fh=6&r=us_ma&dpdt=&mc=&pwplus=1
You can get a good idea on the short term at this link with the warming temps under the equatorial Pac and Cfs2 wind anomalies. I doubt we see much help this year with a westerly wind burst progged around the 1st of February. Probably too little, too late for this year, but positive for next (famous last words!)
https://www.stormsurf.com/page2/links/ensocurr.html
With all the cold air we've had and is progged to return, it would be the statistical anomaly of the last 100 years if the MA and ENE would continue near snowless for the rest of the winter.
Otoh, it wouldn't shock me if we did, but central/southern VA and parts of NC cash in. That's textbook Niña of late and consistent with the "what happens in December the winter will remember" saying.
How? It's a passage of a cold front after a period of decently AN temps that are slow to leave. Very little precip falls per the run before and after that 216hrs panel.
Nobody said that. The fact remains that we can't get anything to work without perfection, and there's no such thing as perfection in MA snowstorms outside of 1 every 12-15 years. I contend the general NW-->SE flow is the reason for storms failing to develop vs prior years and weak qpf output. If this doesn't change at some point, get used to ensemble progs the rest of the "cold enough to snow" season being right.