Rob, my analysis from runs which delivered and those that did not, was actually the opposite.
On those runs where the storm deepened more, it tended to slow and curve more northward, missing the jet stream like a slower, heavier surfer misses the wave and the low then dawdled near or over Greenland allowing our Atlantic high to ridge strongly northward, and keep amore mid Atlantic position allowing the previous low to drop into Europe and ...you know the rest.
ICON is persisting in keeping it a flatter, shallower, faster feature, for example.
The US forecasters are really struggling with the precipitation type forecasts because the track is so difficult. Fact is, its not even emerged over the Sierra Nevada yet were its dropping several feet of snow.
Jeff
Originally Posted by: Jeff