Member view of all the Ensemble suites was kind of interesting. While the mean on the EPS got ever so slightly worse, it does have a growing cluster of cold members, so all hope is not lost.
With the GEFS, it actually had some pretty decent improvements over the 18z. There's just a cluster of warm members that's dragging the mean up there as well. About 30% of members are reasonably cold though.
CMC had a drastic improvement over its 12z suite, which had basically no cold members.
AIGEFS remains the coldest for now with about 50% of its members being decently cold.
AIFS Ensembles still the worst, with only about 10% of its members being even remotely cold. A drastic improvement over everything we have seen from that suite so far this winter though.
It will probably be the early game also for the exact same reason you said, lol! They should have been the last game of the regular season and welp, nope.