There are plenty of rules, but when said rules mean snow this winter in Methuen, MA, then we learn how there are a myriad of exceptions to said rules.
I'm sure the ensemble means will gets its MOJO back when the OP amps up for a blizzard next week.
I think its also easy to get carried away with the negative inertia of recent trends and lose sight of the fact that even the 00z EURO is a major winter storm outside of I 495. I'm guilty of it myself.
I was speaking more to thermals....the usual clown suspects were relatively reserved, but that usually stingy algorithm saw something it liked. I think it speaks to the ample easterly inflow coupled with strong antecedent airmass.
Will, what do you make of this? That is not clown algorithm and its usually conservative, but it seems a bit overzealous in this case. The other clown maps are very little... Think it just really likes the antecedent airmass?