Webberweather53
Meteorologist
By your own admission, in almost every scenario other than the extremely rare phased bomb miller A, you want a high either to the north or northwest nosing in to provide some offsetting cold and dry air during the storm. That's all either of us have been saying. Now stop this nonsense.
What nonsense? You're seriously gonna try to argue with a guy (me) who has spent the better part of the last several years analyzing thousands of individual cases for winter storms around here? Lol, please.
You actually said earlier you want northeasterly flow east of the mtns and big cold high to the north, that is literally verbatim CAD setups only, there are many other types of winter storms fyi. You also can't just willingly omit some of the biggest storms of all time and brush those aside, especially if your point was to say we need "x" to specifically get big winter storms when literally many of the biggest events don't have that.