Last second trends always make an accurate forecast practically impossible. Now it's up to mets to gamble and extrapolate the models even further NW cause the models are playing catch up and won't quite make it.
If CMC is correct this has all the makings of a bust From DC to PHI and Burbs. NYC will get a good thump but even there they will have sleet and a dryslot and struggle to make the low end of whatever ridiculously high range the NWS gives.. This looks exactly like most Non-megalopolis storms. Death band State College to Scranton to Albany to Concord.
Also WTF is wrong with the GFS?
Numerous upgrades over the years, with little or no improvement in forecasting skill in the months after the upgrade.
NAM is still the laughing stock, but GFS is providing plenty of extra comic relief this storm.
Not what I said. I pointed out a trend on the GGEM.
I also pointed out that the GFS's should be tossed because it was turning the storm OTS faster than any other mode.
PD 1 storm was a bomb. The ULL held together. I don't think it is a good analog
PDII and the blizzard of 1983 are probably better analogs for SNE.
High placement was nearly identical in 1983
PDII wad a similar troff lifting out and weak coastal, High placement was similar but a lot stronger. Also had a deep tropical connection