I think weather AI is going to develop some sort of self selection bias at some point to keep us happy and just start spitting out Day After Tomorrow solutions on each run, in July even.
Unless the GFS scores the coup on this storm then I think it needs to have the run hours cut down to max 84h and maybe it could just be relegated to replace the NAM. Leave the long range deterministic modeling to the AI. I have more faith in that model improving more in time.
Might as well root for the SER. Clearly not having it hasn't improved our snow chances. Maybe it can pump some Gulf moisture and time that with a cold shot to actually give us a storm.
I remember the heady days of dec 17, 2009 every time they issued a new storm warning update, the snow total forecast increased another 6" over the last issue. Seems like a lifetime ago. I was never so excited to hit the refresh button on my browser.
I'm waiting til after this weekend's event to get invested. If we underperform during this rain then I'm sticking with drought persistence. But if we get a solid soaking then I'm gonna have some faith again.
I think it was last year or the year before, JB was hyping the spire when they first started showing it on WB. Haven't heard him reference it since then...