Yup. Classic Chicago storm track. Plenty of details to refine, but my confidence is growing for at least a warning level storm.
Let’s just avoid the 48 hr disappearing act which was the name of the game the past few years…
Regardless of the amount of snow, winds are going to make travel damn near impossible. Even 4-6” with 40-50mph winds would pull the plows from the roads. Jump that to double digits and you have a true paralyzing blizzard.
Yeah, about as big of broad brush of a 8+” as you can get area wide through Christmas Day
regardless of how it plays out, I am getting pretty confident in seeing my first white Christmas in a few years
Didnt we have repeated GFS vs. Everyone standoffs last year with last second (within 48 hr) caves repeatedly by the GFS?
We will see if the "upgrade" does anything, but certainly not putting much weight in any solution (and even less with a GFS outlier).
Well to be fair, it’s not real often you have widespread model agreement at 240hr. Lots of time to go “poof”, but it’s been a long time since we have something to track