Once you start getting >+3c in that warm layer you nuke the ice nuclei pretty quickly - unless the warm layer is super shallow. Even if you're 10F in the boundary layer you're going to get ZR with an all liquid drop.
It certainly has that ice look. As always the worst area is pretty narrow as sleet generally becomes predominant.
Even a surface low in Long Island Sound probably keeps BDL locked in below 32.
I think you're right. We'll see how the upper levels shake out - if we get the earlier phase or not. Obviously with the cold to the north there's quite a risk for some big time icing.
Sure. Wouldn’t take much for the forecast to change. I also said in every weathercst that it wouldn’t take much for this to be a cutter and for us to get mainly rain.