It’s the fisheye lens

GFS also showing GOA ridging in the LR.

I'm getting some bigger flakes and the snow is accumulating quicker. More of a breeze than i was expecting ill have some drifs in my driveway to clear. I got a nice pot of chili to warm me up with the current temperature of 2.

Sapporo Japan is reporting 94cm of snowdepth. They should easily eclipse 100cm for the first time since 21-22. I was there in the winter of 21-22, naturally.

EURO AIFS ens seems to be showing a retrogression signal going into the second week of Feb. You can see kind of a scattered ridging signal here, but notice the deeper heights in the GOA. Probably just the ensembles varying on timing.