I'm a weather junkie, of sorts; it's the only thing I consistently watch on the news. I switch between Rachel Frank on the local Fox station and Ryan Hanrahan on the local NBC station. Both are EXCELLENT. BUT, I've noticed in recent years that both have scaled back their predictions wildly, especially in the face of storms and precipitation. We get the typical "it's going to be warm on Saturday!" and they're usually in the ballpark, but when it comes to heavy thunderstorms (which my area is prone to) and heavy snow, sometimes they won't make narrow predictions until the day before. So we'll get the sort of vague bands "0-4" near the shore, 4-8" across the I-84 corridor, and 8+" in the north west hills, but we're looking closely at this, so stay tuned!" Sometimes the bands are 6" each, not 4". I don't know; for me, being six inches off your prediction is a pretty big differential.