Final Analysis for Monday's "Storm"

That map explains it all. Earlier in the week the chances of a major snow storm on Monday looked very promising. But as the week went on it slowly became more and more apparent that this storm would be suppressed to the south and stay out to sea. And now, two days before the storm, it is very obvious why the storm will stay out to sea. In my previous post I mentioned how strong high pressure will come down behind that trough of low pressure. Well the final product is shown above. The whole eastern half of the US will be under the protective umbrella of high pressure. Just no way a developing storm will be able to pierce this strong high pressure and move up the east coast. Some of the models have brought the storm slightly farther west this morning, but I think in the end the high pressure will win and the storm will stay out to sea.