Wut? Long range modeling showing pattern changes to a wintrier pattern have fallen flat every time they've shown up. It's the winter of modeling showing a pattern change perpetually in the 10-14 day range.
Given antecedent airmass and tenor of the season over the last 6 weeks, this has felt like a C/NNE threat to me. This is not to say western and higher terrain of SNE can’t score some love but nothing noteworthy to me.
We'd be talking prolific totals for just about everyone if we had some semblance of an Arctic air mass. As it current;y stands, we are lying all the dynamics of the storm to draw in the cold air aloft down to the surface.
I'll defer to the masses but given how strong a storm signal this upcoming one is, I'd be fine with a separate thread at this point, even though we are 4-5 days out.