Saddleback Mountain is coming into view now that the low-lying despicable marine $hit is finally out of view.

Ah yeah, good call. Tomorrow's storm looks better for them then. Pretty decent increase over its 12z run.

fwiw, some of that in Michigan is tomorrow's storm. Here's just the New Years storm:

I don't think we ever saw the sun in February 2017, that month was a complete wash out. Had a decent amount of snow late in the month with cold onshore flow. But we might have had 2-3 sunny days total in February/March that year.

One thought I just had is a big cold wave in the east might finally stop the progressiveness of the pattern and allow the AL to retrograde back to the NW Pacific. You can see hints of that on some model runs. The current regime is doing nobody any good at all.