At least he's not in Philly.

Yep... GFS is alone on its goofy island.

I think it's just a mistake in the code. If it were only the ECMWF operational and EPS that were against it I would be a bit nervous. With both ECMWF AI models also saying it's wrong I'm feeling decent. For that matter the 12z GEM was ok too. BTW that is an interesting point you make about me making the models sound like they're alive.

The 18z ECMWF will get into the time frame where the GFS is hopefully going wrong so we'll see how that looks.

Seems like you overlook 1960 a lot. That was a pretty unbelievable event from coast to coast. Arguably the biggest 500mb anomaly in North America in the past century.