ICON is a good model every once in awhile. Past two years with it I've found its best use is sniffing things out early.
Fairly sure that at some point a few years ago @stormtracker pronounced ICON a valid model to discuss. Was a big win for the weenie modeling community.
If there is one model trend we can count on, it’s the GFS bumping northward/northwestward in the last 72 hours of a storm. It happens every single time.
I can't find the tweet I saw so take this with a large grain of salt but I'm pretty sure the Para had pretty solid verification scores for this past storm.