Just posted about how I'm now confident we'll get to 18" in most of CNJ, with 24" being attainable where the heavier bands set up, as we have almost 8" on the ground now. It's ripping out there and the radar/water vapor loop look incredibly juicy from way down into the Gulf/Atlantic up to the storm and into the huge precip shield. So I can easily see getting another 10+ inches from now to 7 pm, which would get me to 18" and most others south of 78, I think. Not sure if NYC/LI or NJ north of 78 get to 18", but certainly possible.
The one caveat to the above is if the dreaded dry slot rears its ugly head. Right now it looks to be down around Cape May and in theory the storm should start moving ENE instead of NNE, as it's been doing, that movement would drive the precip shield to "pivot" and slide ENE-ward, allowing all that precip over VA to slide over us for hours to come, delivering the rest of the snow. But if that dry slot comes up here, that would hold down accumulations.
