We know you have to go conservative with these storms because 90% of the time the ground truth is the low end of forecast/guidance amounts. The thing I find intriguing is the amount of time this storm is going to hang out vs our typical steady movers. I would think the odds would be better of hitting high end guidance with this one, time will tell. I have only seen 3 storms in my lifetime hit the magical 20" number and the only way you get there is a slow crawl.
Even though it's short term the ensembles can still be used to detect last hour trends north/south for example the big move north in the December storm
ECM looks a lot like the para GFS hmmm
Also more realistic looking digital snow map and man the kuchera ones are starting to bug me raise expectations through the stratosphere in every storm.
It's done well with the signal as the ECM wavered, however the latest run is different than the rest of the models not showing a warm coastal influence have to see how that plays out. It's awful close to game time to show this change.
The signals won't stop that February is a potential blockbuster. -AO/-NAO and even -EPO kicking in. The February 2014 look but not as cold(that was record territory)
It helps the month starts off with 8-20" snow hehe