I remember the one almost 16 years to the day back in 2010 while my son and I were attending the commemoration of the 125 year anniversary of the Blue Hill Observatory. Kocin and Uccellini during their lectures were wondering if they were going to be able to get back to Baltimore/DC with a massive storm down there while we were sucking extreme cold and cirrus. Maybe we weren't that close on that one. But at least we got signed copies of "Northeast Snowstorms".
EPS followed the Euro with a marked improvement to the NW. One more run like that and much of E MA will be sharing the cape's good stuff.
I was comparing to 12z.
It's the GFS against the world. But the Euro gives the cape 1"+ qpf. Another move nw like this one would get that qpf up to the Boston area.
But if the GFS starts heading east at 06 and/or 12z, it's probably time to move on to the next threat.
What's interesting on that GFS run is that the heavy convection was to the north and northwest, while the storm took an eastward track. Usually we see these setups where it chases the heavy convection to the east of the center and we lose out. That's why I'm not buying this eastward track.
Besides those two outliers to the south, there are 5 others that are far to the east, and that is obviously pulling the mean more to the east than what the rest of the members would suggest. The vast majority of the members are to the west of the mean.
7", 9º F here now. Nothing much accumulated in the first hour, only adding up in the past 5 hours, so over 1"/hr now. Wind is picking up, so there will be some drifting. Evidence of that was against the garage doors with 8" there.