Should @Cashtown_Coop open the MDT contest back up for adjustments? :-). Actually I would not adjust down much. I still think MDT has a shot at over a foot.
The Nam, CMC and RGEM all show it starting to transfer again tomorrow evening and I am convinced that is robbing some of our potential for a far reaching deform band. Similar to the way a cluster of storms can rob from areas around them.
The Nam does over do qpf totals so the joking about a "namming" is fairly legit but it is extremely useful for trend based forecasting. With that said it was by itself this time so could not buy into it fully even if it ends up being the best forecast. It dismays me to see Red Taggers cast it off or start sentences with "Good thing its not going to be right because its the Nam..."
Well my county is pretty long. That 1" contour is pretty far from me. It's only about .87 over me of which I would guess most comes today. Just one map.
On the Nam it is due to some fairly extensive mixing to the west of the Catoctins. When I bought into this area I did not realize we would lose the column so quickly on most variety of storms. No immediate mountains to my west to protect. Sort of like a funnel between Mercersburg and Adams county.
Edit-Actually gets the mixing up into LSV as well.