baltosquid

I think the problem is the storm itself is mainly just slower so the high isn’t as ideally placed by the time it arrives. You can see the progression of the storm slowing down run to run on the GEFS member MSLP graphic

GEFS was worse, basically back to 06z for it. Only a tiny bit of snow in far NE MD.

Actually unsure of the GEFS, high may be moving out of the way too early. Probably gonna be close to the same

GEFS should be a bit better I think, stronger high

End result is pretty similar. Just won't budge south since 06z though. ENS will be intriguing.

EPS mean snow depth (I don’t have a sub to look at actual quantity on pivotal) moved SW some

Euro AI was another nudge SW, nothing too dramatic though.

Also might have missed mention of it but the Ukie also moved south, still just some light mixy stuff for northern parts of the subforum though.

Yeah op was a disappointment but also given how quickly the presentation of this event is changing, really shouldn’t get discouraged with the ensembles still trending south. We’ll probably windshield wiper along the way even if it does pan out for us.

GEFS moved south, pretty noticeably.

Of course. I’m not speaking literally, though I understand it’s careless agency-assigning or anthropomorphizing towards the models to speak like that, and yeah I probably shouldn’t.

FWIW (little) the NAM and RGEM continue the trends of higher heights to our west and lower ones in the east at range. Same way the GFS has been trending. ICON captures the event and was only just a tick south though (in terms of wintry precip for us)

Yeah I mean at least there is a pretty simple path to understanding the sudden change. Fingers crossed we’ll be talking about how the GFS proved everyone wrong for a foot of snow by week’s end…

Such a strange threat. Just a massive south trend on the GFS out of nowhere for run after run after run and now it’s actually maybe getting other ops to move towards it? Would be an insane coup for it. Obviously I wish there was more ensemble support but at the same time, could it just be a situation where ens runs aren’t gonna sniff what an op is catching on to? One can hope…

Yeah that is the period to watch until a pattern shift. Definitely a lot of rumbling about some sort of wave rolling through. But the blocking situation or whether we get a good 50/50 or not is just super far from getting resolved.