Perhaps you should have a discussion with Mdecoy where you explore what would be considered a normal number of early panics in your normal winter.
Not sure if you should use the mean, median, mode.
For me it’s easy. In one month, give me the 10 2”s. That’s a snow every third day. Give me January. Snow will last, develop a solid snow cover. Be a great wintry month. Throw in temps about 5 below avg for my month and it would be incredible
Interesting that the precip trajectory, or at least on the snow maps for the NAM’s changed to more ne to sw from the earlier w to e tilt. They also expanded the heavier precip a good deal to the nw.
I wonder which is more likely. Might have to wait to see how the radar develops. My gut says precip from that direction tends to arrive a bit earlier than is forecast. We shall see