NC has gotten burned so often by this dreaded trend..forced to watch in misery as friends up north get pasted. The meltdown threads of lost storms the past 5-10 years on this forum are nothing short legendary. and actually quite sad.
There are three constants when it comes to winter weather in the southeast that you must always remember.
1. The warm nose will always overperform
2. The Northern trend is inevitable
3. The Appalachian mountains will shred anything to their west
Anytime you're tracking a storm, apply these principles in relation to said storm. and always lean towards more conservative solutions.
But to give everyone some hope, the Euro and other models do have a suppression bias. The trend north is just an overcorrection for that bias overtime. So NC folks should be in a good position when taking that into account.