Do we still give a crap about the long range anymore?

Interesting per NWS Spokane Troughing off the PNW coast will strengthen through this afternoon, ushering in anomalously cold air to the upper and mid levels. This cold air advection will promote steepening lapse rates, with the RAP and NAM showing low level lapse rates up to 8.8 degC/km. These low level lapse rates will favor convective enhancement within the incoming snow tonight, resulting in locally heavy bursts of snow. The exact location of these snow bands will be very hard to forecast in advance, but the overall area most likely to see impacts will be the Idaho Panhandle and the eastern third of Washington. This will impact the evening commute, with the potential for areas under these heavier snow bands to see low visibility, localized snowfall rates of 1-2 inches per hour, and flash freezing of roads. Conditions will deteriorate quickly, so be prepared for winter driving.

AI Euro does have a light even as do its ensambles. It's pretty light though. 1-2 south of 70. OG Euro did make a step to the other models at 12z on the east coast storm. The wave is pretty progressive as it swings though. So my expectaions are pretty low.

This place is CRAY-zee when there are well thought out posts like this

Yeah, that's why it really pays to just look at the overall synoptic setup and try to understand the pieces in place. You're just never going to see the kind of snow coverage the Euro/GFS have been showing with a weakening meso low that also isn't interacting with a significant amount of cold air advection aloft (e.g. 1/10/2017 or 2/22/2023). Whatever we'll see with tomorrow night's setup will be spotty and obviously extremely precip rate dependent for the lower elevations.