If we see uncle starting to get a clue, and/or the Canadian, then I'll believe we have a real shot. Unless or until that happens, these on again off again runs of the GFS and Euro are meaningless. But that had better happen very soon.
Canadian and uncle have never been on board since they can't shake that sw energy, and the latest GFS has that sw energy digging again, and the northern stream was weaker as well.
On the Op, once that energy in the sw wanes, the low blows up into a 946 monster well east of Nova Scotia.
Future runs will have to eliminate that energy faster if we are to have a chance for a monster blowup closer to home.
Unlike you, many of us will still be up tonight for the 0z runs.
When you retire for the evening, take note of the page number and compare it to what you see in the morning after you get up. The difference should give you some idea of how the 0z runs went.
The Op is still the far west outlier with 988 over DE, so hopefully it takes one of those better tracks shown on the ensemble, at least for those who would taint under the op scenario.
Fwiw (probably not much), the Canadian ensembles have nothing even resembling a storm on the 11-12th. And the op had a weak low out near Bermuda.
And uncle had most of the qpf heading to Bermuda as well.
Not to be a debbie downer, but the red flag that I see is that both the GFS op and the Euro op are far west outliers when you look at the ensemble members. In fact, they are just about all alone in those depictions. Let's see if the ops hold in the next couple of runs. I'm looking at the Pivotal maps for the members.
We've seen this movie before. After a lengthy cold and dry period, we warm up just enough for a cold heavy rain. Then we'll go back to the cold and dry.
Giving up alcohol for the first month of the year has become a popular trend known as Dry January.
Many of us aim to give new meaning to the term Dry January by unwillingly giving up snow for the month.
Even during this warm spell, the RH in the house never got above 35%. During the cold snap it was in the low to mid 20's. Definitely not good for the skin. I usually get occasional nose bleeds in the right side of my nose in the winter because of the low humidity, but so far this year nothing.
My only point was that we would like to see this move a couple of hundred miles closer in the time remaining. It is a threat as far as that specfic run is concerned. Maybe I should have used the word "potential".