I called my guy at NOAA and said "WTF are uyou guys doing over there"?

What does the green 99% confidence level line actually mean on this?

Day 8 (4-run trend) A notch here, a notch there. Some progress noted.

Just tremendous cold modeled for much of the nation. Could end up being a very cold January in parts of the US.

Yeah for sure, Yankees new to the area would give the locals so much grief, but they quickly figured out why. In addition to the lack of experience, they don't have the equipment, and there usually is a lot more ice involved with their winter precip. Overall, I think Bellingham/Whatcom county does a good job. They get caught out once in a while, but on events that last a week or more, we usually even get our quiet dead end street plowed by the 3rd day. It's a long hill that is steep enough that you are not getting out without 4wd/Awd/traction devices. We used to get our neighborhood plowed early the second day regardless of how bad the event was. I think we either had someone with connections with Public Works, or it was the fact that we used to have a TON of first responders living in the neighborhood. Back to the equipment thing, this is most often what they use to plow the roads in Georgia: