Really happy for you southern folks. We always cash in while you mix or flip. Even better is that you stole a storm from within 60 hours! Big winner today might be the GFS though. IMO, big win for American NWP.
NAM is north. 18z had the surface low in SC, 00z has it in NC. If you're south of I-70, you look good for a solid event. Really amazing how this event has appeared out of thin air.
Not a weenie post, genuine intrigue: wonder what, if any impact the warmer than usual ocean water might have on the storm (death band, more juice to work with, etc.).
Better ratios north side. Actually looks like colder push helps northern side a bit more because it's a quicker flip. Consensus seems to be advisory level event south of I-70 and sharp increase to warning level for US 50 corridor.
South of I-70 get accumulating snow. South of I-66 to US 50 gets warning level snow. It's an improvement for these locations. Good luck north of there, at least the Canadian/Euro/GFS have snow north to Mason-Dixon.