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I think it is because we have to wait a week for the "big one" showing up. At least there are a few smaller waves to track before then.

Just got in from my walk. Beautiful with a steady light snow falling. It is pixie dust, but can't be too picky at this point. A few tenths of an inch so far.

The hood still has a solid 3 to 5 inch pack that can be walked on without falling through.

All in all, a nice winter's evening walk.

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Buffalo still going with the European.

While there is still a relatively broad envelope of solutions
concerning a large storm system early in this time period...
confidence is slowly increasing that winter weather headlines will
eventually be needed for at least parts of our forecast area. In the
wake of this system...there is high confidence that it will become
notably colder with accumulating lake snows in the typical
snowbelts.

Since there is still a fair amount of spread in the various ensemble
members...it would not be beneficial to get too deep into the
details. It would be more helpful to briefly describe the two main
scenarios that are being forecast. The first...which is the one that
we will lean towards...is that the cyclogenesis over the Lower
Mississippi Valley will yield a consolidating sfc low that will
track up the western side of the Appalachians then over or just west
of our forecast area. This seems more plausible than the other
scenario given the trend of the deep longwave trough to become
negatively tilted over the plains. The result would be a period of
snow that would spread across our region Wednesday night and early
Thursday. The snow would become mixed with sleet and rain before
changing to just rain for a time during the day.

The second scenario is that the system will track further to the
east across the Deep South before making its way up the coastal side
of the Appalachians. This would be a colder solution for our area
with the resulting pcpn being nearly all snow...albeit it with lower
general QPF. For what its worth...the majority of the GEFS ensembles
favor this line of thinking.

In both cases...cold air on the backside of the storm system will
return/deepen over our forecast area during the course of Thursday
night and especially on Friday. Any mixed pcpn will change to
snow...with lake snows blossoming east of both lakes Friday and
Friday night. Even if headlines were not required for the synoptic
system leading into the lake snows...there is higher confidence that
lake snows would necessitate headlines as we end the week and
proceed into the weekend.

Finally for Saturday...a deep cyclonic flow of sub arctic air (H85
temps minus teens) over the wide open lakes will maintain at least
scattered lake driven snow showers with accumulating snows still
found east of both lakes.
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The entire evolution of this northern stream disturbance has changed in litterly the last 12hours...

Goes to show you how bad the models really are..

NWS failed to recognize this and they still have the most snow on the tug which seems like a Longshot looking at the latest guidance..

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