If people would like to see reports and report their current conditions I recommend checking this out for those unfamiliar:
https://mping.nssl.noaa.gov
He's more than a couple miles west but yes, elevation is always a factor. I'll see a difference between my yard and the hill (over 500) I drive over to get to the main road. It's really cool when an inversion sets up between me and the top of the hill.
My expectations has been 4-8" here for days, I see no reason to change that. I did mention to folks that there is room to move upward a touch but I'm just not confident enough in it until now casting starts in earnest.
And a couple crates of other various types of produce. Someplace I have a dollar bill he autographed. He took a bunch of photos with people in the produce aisle. I had tickets to the show and he gave the store a shout out from the stage.
I think we'll see some snow at the start but that storm has cutter written all over it. We'll see what happens though. The 12z GFS got more interesting for this weekend, so we'll see if the other models start getting stronger as well of if it was a fluke GFS run.
I cant help but wonder if these winter weenies paid attention to weather year round that they would understand the models better, like their biases, which one to use when, etc.