My earlier comment was really more of an observation rather than personal criticism. And I'm definitely not one to ruffle feathers. @Itstrainingtimeyou are totally correct and I have no problems with your reply to me. After the event is over and we have all the final measurements I would love to ask Tom about his forecast reasoning one way or the other.
Honestly, the ONLY model currently showing anything as low as what he has on that map is the 0z 3K NAM. It's as if he doesn't think we'll get anything from the coastal out this way.
When you say bust potential are you referring to them saying that the amounts could be much higher or much lower than their current forecasted amounts?
Man, I'm getting tired of being the bullseye. PS...I can see that several of us including @Blizzard of 93, @sauss06, and @canderson are also in it with me, and maybe also @Cashtown_Coop.
I haven't looked at the surface maps but judging by the clown maps it appears that only east-central NJ gets into the CCB. I don't think any part of PA gets into it.
Boy what an image to wake up to! Even zoomed in I can barely see that I appear to be in the bullseye with that purple color, which looks like it begins around 36"? Of course the very first storm this looks like is Jan 2016 where I received 35" which was the single biggest storm of my life. I know this is going to change! It's just nice to see that the north trend we all were expecting 48 hours ago when the bullseye was down in northern Virginia has materialized. Hard to believe this is Thursday and we have to wait until Sunday for it to begin.
From what I'm seeing GFS says 6" from the primary, and that's all by 7:00pm Sunday evening. Then there's 0.2" of ZR, then a whopping 2" more from the coastal/back around.
Well, somewhat encouraging is that NWS has dropped any mention of a mix/zr and now is all snow start to finish. They also lowered the high temp on Monday from 36 to 34. I predict that temp will keep going down and will remain below 32 for the high temp on Monday.