Brian Lynch

We continue to monitor weather conditions. Forecasts indicate improving conditions, and we hope to announce an updated start time shortly.

Rory McIlroy: "I think a bunched leaderboard like this, I think it's a sign of a not-great setup...it hasn't really enabled anyone to separate themselves. It's easy to make a ton of pars...it feels like bogey's the worst score you're going to shoot on any one hole."

❄️ FINAL FORECAST: BLIZZARD OF 2026 ❄️ Now that the snowstorm is underway, I went into a high level of detail trying to narrow down the snow band placement and evolution. Forecast reasoning follows in the thread below:

Most crucially, today's data tells us that we are still hovering near an inflection point aloft where small short-term variability makes all the difference between: - low forms well offshore, inverted trough leads to some locally light-moderate snow in Mid Atlantic (current model consensus) - light-moderate snow across the Mid Atlantic & I-95, heavy along the coast (suggested by some of this evening's data) - major I-95 snowstorm (not currently shown by any model/ensemble, but can't be completely ruled out just yet) As relevant features start coming closer into the CONUS domain tomorrow & Friday, we'll start to see models become less volatile.

There is a legitimate winter weather storm potential to monitor for the East Coast in early February. The large-scale ingredients are there: - Departing antecedent trough suppressing the baroclinic zone and acting as a transient 50/50 low - SW US trough entering the Gulf - Potential north stream trough being transported into the central/southern US downstream of western North American ridging There is still a lot of uncertainty and a suppressed low track is quite possible... but there is a *very* high-end ceiling for a major snowstorm if one does materialize out of these ingredients.