I don’t think he is being smug or doing any “I told you so” here. He does this to paint a picture on why model forecasting in most cases doesn’t work, especially in the long range. He is a TV met who probably got constant questions on social media and probably everyday life about the what the GFS or Euro snow map looked like 7-10 days out over the past few months. This helps people understand that those maps are useless, and tbh this board follows those maps heavily.