Out of the hunt was specific to this particular model run. I personally would prefer rain and 50's over a couple inches of snow and then rain and 30's. If you look back at some classic MEC/HEC situations, even in the times of a deeper cold mass, we want the surface reflection down near Norfolk and east of the DelMarVa not running right through the DelMarVa. We need it south of what the 12Z GFS showed regardless of the algorithms that showed snow on it.
One positive considering our lack of CAD/deep cold air is there is little forcing shown in the GFS so there should not be a spout of warm air coming up....just do not want ANY warm air considering we have no cold to give :-).
It shows almost the same exact thing happening again on Jan 30. Not as much the origination vs. a low running right through the DelMarVa which is just far enough north to turn the LSV over. Our benchmark in the LSV is not on land.