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By 138 hours all but one GEFS member was forecasting a major storm. By 102 hours every member had a major snowstorm 90% of the GEFS ensemble members started showing double digit snows. BY 120 hrs the eruo had brought a 500 low just to our south and made it a big storm. By 72 hr the nam looked great and kept getting wetter each run. I have some of those maps but there are too many to show. I wish I had my thread from eastern on it as the day before it started as I changed the headline to read widespread 20 inch amounts likely. I sounded like JB. I got downright giddy. I also remember that the D+8 superensembles kept spitting out 5 6 inch or greater storms most being KU storms and at 48 hrs the CIPS analogs picked 1983 as its top one. It was one of the best forecast storms I can ever remember. Maybe the best. If you are real geeky. Her's a location where NAm forecasts are archived. You can look at its forecasts for the event. Basically pretty darn good. http://charlie.wxcaster.com/cgi-bin/namModelArchive.cgi you can also get the gfs http://charlie.wxcaster.com/cgi-bin/gfsModelArchive.cgi ]

I remember posting about it and Jason quoting me on the Capital Weather Gang site and my neighbor telling me that he had seen me quoted. I think I said something like we hadn't seen a storm like this one before in dec for the dc area. Beyond that, I remember being excited that my part of Calvert county stayed all snow.