mitchnick

Helluva block

If you run this 500mb vort prog in motion you can see around the Great Lakes the trough pushing a ridge overtop that's shoving our system SE. I think this is fairly representative of all the models. https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=namconus&region=us&pkg=z500_vort&runtime=2026012812&fh=1

Yeah...you still rub me the wrong way though!

In northern AA County, every once and a while little would would start to fall steadily, then dwindle to flurries, only to rub salt in the wound.

And therein lies the rub.

For those of us west of the Bay, Boxing day was even closer than what is depicted here.

Fwiw, if you compare 0z Nam to 6z, you can see that it took has taken on the precip shield as Gfs and Euro at 84hrs vs the "headed north" look of 0z.

This has had Boston's name all over it from the start with the way it extends east.

Here comes the northern stream energy to kick it east.

That's snow depth measuring what's already on the ground that isn't melting.

Just like the Gem, it's got the northern stream system coming out of the Dakotas. Gfs has essentially nothing of consequences on the map.

Could see it coming. That kicker in the upper Midwest came flying south out of Canada.

Watch out for that kicker on the Gem.

Not quite as good 0z.

Surface looks "busy." https://meteocentre.com/numerical-weather-prediction/map-explorer.php?lang=en&map=na&run=18&mod=cmc_gdps&stn=PNMPR&comp=1&run2=18&mod2=cmc_gdps&stn2=PNMPR&hh2=000&fixhh=1&stn2_type=prog&mode=latest&yyyy=latest&mm=latest&dd=latest&hh=084