Yea, the mean is skewed by some solutions near Bermuda...same thing we saw with respect to the inland bomb, which cast the illusion that it looked good for the coast. In this case, its better than it appears via the mean.
Have fun frolicking in the fields with -20 degree wind chills...I'd rather dodge puddles and be comfortable. Again, if I had a respectable snow pack, maybe I would feel differently.
As someone who forecasted a PV split late in the season, you are falling into the Judah Cohen trap of being too reliant on it....its not the only element to the hemispheric weather pattern.
The notion that Miller A and B cyclogenesis are two entirely binary concepts is so archaic....the reality of the matter is that:
1) The vast majority of events are some sort of hybrid to varying degrees.
2) Most of our best systems are hybrid that carry s stream juice with n stream reinvigoration on approach south of LI.
That said, I would rather not see a system closed off before it gets to the mid atl, but I'm not so picky these days.
Well, look....we aren't getting 2'+ out of a pure Miller A...but they can still work out, and we can't be picky right now. There is also time to modulate this....I doubt it closes off quite that far south and we could also get some n stream insert. Bottom line is don't sweat details at this juncture.
I think the EURO is particularly struggling with this pattern....but in the grand scheme of things, its more that the GFS has closed the gap IMHO. But EURO is not as bad as it looks right now.