psuhoffman

I guess if you don't differentiate between 24" and 4" lol

No I don't know...every single model has shifted quite a bit...Euro had been the only steady one and then it shifted last run...

Things are still trending...this is not the final outcome we are seeing today. But everything is trending the way we want for now. That's all I'm taking from this. UK was nice except freaking torched at the surface...would have been a nice 4-8" snow across the area if it wasn't so damn warm at the surface.

that is exactly what happens...and yea not worried YET although for a long time now whatever can go wrong does go wrong

a lot of changes still happening...but I need to know how a sub 990 low tracking INSIDE Hatteras ends up mostly missing us!

it looked good early but somehow wound up so tight it ended up a pretty bad run other than down south

Everything trends a certain way...except when we need it that way

The difference is minor but there...take whatever the GGEM ends up showing and develop the storm a little sooner and amp it up a bit more and that's what the RGEM was showing...which isn't to say one is more right lol

GGEM is slightly less amplified than RGEM at 84 hours...so they might end up close...but RGEM was going to be better.

maybe my bar is low but it looks a lot better to me

keep us close heading into the final 72 hours with that upper low closing off right over us and the inverted trough around and we have a shot at something going out way. But there is so much noise in front of this both it terms of how the blocking north of us evolves (and yes there is blocking...look at the flow over top of us, the Hudson High is doing it's job) and all the little SWs flying around. I think there are likely to continue to be some changes up until the very end here...so I just want us close enough that these changes could make a difference for us.

luckly for them it's still far enough out they don't need to have a nailed down perfect forcast YET...there is time for this to resolve. But if it ends up an inverted trough being ignited by a last second developing coastal lol...got help them...that's a nowcast situation and someone always ends up getting dumped in those but good luck predicting where...it's like trying to nail down the exact location of a thunderstorm ahead of time.

assuming they look the same at 84, they usually do, but past 60 sometimes they diverge a little

It wouldn't prove you wrong...this storm could be that fluke outlier...or maybe the pattern is about to flip...but there was a very clear storm track pattern from Mid December up until now. That isn't your imagination.

PS the rug pull is not just an US thing...models are often too aggressive with these and any minor delay in development means the snow shifts northeast some...so when Philly is the back ends 24 hours out it ends up NYC, when its NYC it ends up Boston. Remember 2015 when NYC was expecting 30" and it ended up hitting just east of them.