yeah but once you get inside 5 days, they still have more skill than the run 6 hours prior. the time becomes more important than the extra obs at some point. although maybe in a world of reduced commercial air traffic, that's changed a little
Agree with your point as well. I don't think we have quite honed in on a final answer as to how the most complicated process of the storm will play out. We are getting closer, but not yet. Changes in the actual storm dynamic can have positive effects that could help negate a less favorable trough.
I think it's a premature cancel, even if the Euro does move east. Sometimes these things all take in incomplete data that skew that output the same way, only to all correct the same way in a following cycle. It's still 84 hours out.