With wind and full Sun, having those temps verify would be quite impressive. Hell, I think a sub-freezing day at all with full Sun is pretty solid by ~March 1.
Snowcover enhanced, but damn that's a cold day for next Monday on the GFS. Especially for Feb 28. Low 10s for lows, highs low 20s for metro corridors, maybe upper 10s for N/W places.
The antecedent conditions (cold push, high strength and positioning) were better on the euro than the gfs at 12z. But euro just amped that storm up too much so it still cuts far west. But that is a euro bias so…
There’s a leading area of precipitation on all the guidance ahead of the main low. Like late Thursday. Guidance also mostly peters it out before quite getting to us. But our airmass is good, so if we can juice that up…