Everyone gets this, right?
Actually, I see that you refer to it as the Coriolis effect, and not Coriolis force. I've heard that before from a non-met scientist, who would get indignant when it was referred to as a "force".
Yeah, I was at my son's lacrosse game at Pace U. in Westchester County in February 22. Suddenly, everyone's phone started beeping the warning. Of course, there was one nerd in the stands who didn't need a phone warning! The campus received 2" in 30 minutes, amazing stuff.
It's funny, but GFS prints out 8" for me. When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, a forecast of 4"-8" was a BIG deal in SWCT, and double digit storms were rare as dodo birds. Now a forecast of 8" is greeted with yawns.
I guess this is the flip side of the CC burger.
The KU book says the ideal location for blocking is on the eastern shore of Greenland. This Canadian archipelago stuff just seems to be self-interfering.
This sounding from South Bend, as the low moves past, is pretty crazy. 16c temperature delta, no shear to speak of until you reach 450mb, no inversion layer, and saturation from the ground to the moon. The lake effect should be massive.
It looks like the Rust Belt will end a long snow drought in a big way over the next two weeks. Midwest first....northeast next is not an unusual progression.