The thing not being talked about much is the duration. The gfs shows about 28 hours of precip on the 23/24 for this area.
A kitchen sink of sleet snow frz. A classic shit storm.
I have seen some runs that had the 23rd, 26th and 28th/1st all producing but I do think that's probably not to realistic. Hopefully the 28th /1st dominating and has some legs?
Don't mind some freezing rain but if the temps drop quickly it's going to be a shit show pretty much everywhere. Salt in rain is pretty pointless but noway to salt everywhere at once. Rather something crawl up the coast for 24 hours than a fast change over. Kitchen sink storms are a ball breakers.
Depends on a number of factors, timing, amounts, ect, but in general that type of storm causes many more headaches than it's worth. It would be fitting for this winter to have a kitchen sink storm though.
From a personal perspective I really hope Boston doesn't go the entire month of February with out a plowable storm. Even in the rat years of the 80's that was very unusual.
Also this forum needs to bust one soon or heads may explode...