You can't hold back that much energy and expect it to work.
Luckily, this particular issue (holding back too much energy) is a staple with all of our big storms at this range so not overly concerned for now.
I'm fine with a slower evolution overall, but holding back that energy SW of the Baja peninsula will mean less phasing and pumping heights out ahead. We'll see how this runs progresses, but that's easily the biggest callout for now.
Echos trying to strengthen again on radar. It's been doing it multiple times only to collapse southeastward a bit so let's see if we can build a solid precipitation field this time.
Solid light snow now in Staten Island and starting to accumulate again on colder surfaces.
Would love to see radar echos intensify and expand on the northern side, it has a bit of a hard time doing so at the moment and just keeps pulsating.
Sounds about right. Even an inch tonight would put them at double digits and about average snowfall for the season to date. After the last few years this feels great, even if it's barely average.