Last year Jan’96 repeat was modeled 6 days out and I don’t even think it we got a fine mist in the end. We haven't had a shortage of modeled snow storms and blockbusters recently - just a shortage, nay outright dearth, of storm verifications. We can complain and bitter about these recent winters, sure, but worse, the models.
maybe its a good thing we don’t have an OP blizzard rn with an apparent ‘good’ pattern model presenting on ensembles.