Yeah, in spite of the impressive base I could easily see that turning out to be a "dirty ridge". Like an endless winter warm front with light rain/drizzle. The inversion inducers, at least for WA/BC need to stretch or cutoff in Central BC.

Fond memories of that arctic outbreak. It's the first time I remember school being cancelled due to cold wx (we were out for 2 days). Elite level cold that doesn't come around often. The high at the Gary Airport (not too far away) was -11 on 1/18/1994, and I can only recall a couple times since then when the afternoon temp was colder than -10. I say afternoon temp because there was a warmer midnight high one time. As far as official high temperatures of -10 or colder in Chicago, this is one of only 4 occurrences: 1/25/1897: -10 12/24/1983: -11 1/18/1994: -11 1/30/2019: -10

My oh my this weather sucks

Is that what people were saying before Feb 2019?

12z EPS probabilities of > 6 inch of snowfall over the next ten days is not too bad for the spots that have a chance to score from both the NYE system and the 1/5-1/7 storm.