This Euro run doesn't have the dry slot from hell. The initial fronto band looks less impressive, but at least it doesn't fly right through. Eastern NE really cleans up.
The absence of a high to the northwest of the system allows the CCB to fan out north and west instead of pivoting, followed by the dry slot. Not a classic set-up at all.
Euro back to a regionwide powerhouse. The 144 panel is just scary. Heavy snows already entrenched throughout SNE and CNE, with a monster vortex still poised to drop in.
Those models deserve a good flogging!!
"GFS, I don't want to hear your lame excuses about fast flow, destructive wave interference or Hadley Cells. Go sit in the corner! We're replacing you this cycle with the JMA."
On the GGEM, the PV shifted well north. But the system then went from closed to a flatter, open wave. Can't figure out why -- it almost looks like the PV diving further south spiked the eastern edge of the ridge, which amplified the storm.
Seems like it hung back a little the last day or so, and was more robust and north. But then another vortex dropped in from Maine to squash and starve it.