If you can show us the model that had 5" of sn/ip for HBG for this weekends event, I'd love to see it. And I'm not talking perty colored snow maps. You've done this plenty long enough to know they are usually bunk with mix events.
Blizz is correct, this one has been modelled as a mix down in the LSV for many days. You just take your sloppy inch and like it.
Tues #2 is and has been our first legit chance for appreciable snow in the LSV, and then you can start adding up a few inches, if were lucky...or you can drive to VA an shovel some into your trunk and throw it into your yard so the that #3 can wash it away. (thats a joke....for now).