That's true, trying to not get excited when you see something like that is hard to do. However, the energy being modeled is only like 6-7 days out from working it's way towards us.
Turning back to a really fine snow here in Newton. If the radar will fill back in as that moisture in Tennessee moves through I believe we will see a little more snow.
Not sure on that one, maybe someone else can chime in on that. I would think it might perform better under 15 hrs or so out, it does show some mixing as far north as the I40 corridor, but seems to have heavier precip (bands) being modeled as well.