Spire model is pretty juiced up for next weekend. I'm not much a fan of the ice.

That's a very shallow quake. Only six miles deep.

I'm certainly aware of the personnel reductions at NWS offices. That does put pressure on the offices when you have less people there to perform. Here are some maps that indicate the RAOB sites that launched balloons at various times leading up toward yesterday's storm. There are some missing launches, especially at 12z, but it looks like there was a pretty complete launch at 00z on Jan 13 and 14. I think blaming cuts for what happened yesterday is a little misguided. To me it's much more likely that the lack of data from Canada (2 RAOB sites in all of southern Canada) is responsible in this particular case.

Devastating trends for the Atlanta weenies. NAM and Goofus caved to the EURO. Yes I am following the SE weather because there is literally nothing better to do. Here was the 18z NAM and the 00z NAM for funsies.

On the Weather Channel they said Buffalo had 12 inches per hour a few years back, that sounds unbelievable to me however.