While I make no claims to be a data guru, I'll say that GFS was sniffing out last week early as well. Hence my reluctance to shift. They ALL are going to go through various iterations until this gets closer. Last week we had a general consensus and only once inside NAM's range did we see thermal challenges shown by NAM despite strong CAD/antecedent airmass in place. also, post mortem, the primary never ceded to the secondary pop, and us southers know how that worked for us.
Call me what you will, but there are no KINGS in weather models anymore.
As stated many times, I look for consensus at this juncture, and at this juncture the only consensus, is that there will be a storm.