But Will Models for 05 were pretty set at least a week before hand outside of the GFS. I know because a friend of mine who knew ABSOLUTELY Nothing about weather, told me 7 days prior, that a Big Blizzard was coming a week from then. I"ll never forget that. I asked him "how do you know something about a snowstorm that I don't?" to which he replied "I don't know, the weather guy was saying it, some big snowstorm next weekend....". Then the Blizzard of 2005 occurred, and I had 27" at my house. Whoever that Weather Guy was, was looking at models, and felt Confident enough to talk about it on TV.