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NWS FSD afternoon update still sounds like they are expecting a southward shift. As mentioned in a prior update, the track of the storm has shifted slightly north with the past couple of model runs, but has held steady with the 12Z run today. If the northward shift continues snow totals will come down a little more. However, if the model trends of the past few years holds, there will be another shift southward in track at 24-36 hours out. While I have adjusted totals for the current model run, I kept them minimal.

Work has been busy so I haven't been able to keep up, but it looks like folks down south are having fun. Big fat goose egg here in Bellingham, and in fact the sun just came out. We had very light rain pretty much all night, but it never got slushy, so just boring 34 degree straight rain... Looks like Bellingham and most of the lowlands of Whatcom County are getting shut out for winter 25-26.

Amazingly it is still snowing here but the melt rate is now exceeding the snow rate.

Basically this is correct... power outages are annoying but not quite annoying enough or frequent enough here to justify the $25K it would cost to have a whole house generator installed. I should have done it back in 2006 when I was told the cost would be $7K. I do need to follow @MR.SNOWMIZER advice though and get that $1K option which would make power outages less annoying.