NOAA issues a Winter Storm Watch for the Mid-Atlantic/southern New England coastline. ECMWF is most aggressive with the snowfall amount forecast for New England where 10-20 in. of snow acros southeast Massachusetts is indicated. Of note, the GFS forecast is considerably lower as the storm is farther offshore.

NOAA/NWS projects significant snow along the Northeast Corridor Coast FRI/FRI night and New England/northern Mid-Atlantic region SAT/SAT night. Forecast confidence is HIGH that this storm will occur.

Stratospheric cooling is projected for the 11-15-day period across Canada indicating that the troposphere (below) will expand and warm consequently preventing a frigid 11-15-day forecast as indicated by GFS and other models to validate.

Upper ocean heat in the equatorial Pacific Ocean to the east of Dateline has diminished to near normal implying fuel to maintain La Nina is diminishing rapidly.