Let's Go, Landon?

No, the title is not a reference to a Republican presidential campaign slogan from 1936.  Landon is the name that The Weather Channel has given to the winter storm for this week.  And the reason I'm bringing up the weather again is that I may have to worry about an ice storm in my neck of the woods.

As the CNN map above shows, there will be a band of ice and sleet between snow on one side of a cold front and rain on the other side.  And the line is going to cross New Jersey over the course of the day on Friday, but right now no one seems to know for certain whether my area will get mostly rain, mostly ice, or mostly a wintry mix - though the third option is the likeliest one. But the Global Forecast System (GFS) pretty much has an ice storm on tap for my area, with a good deal of sleet and snow to follow, while the European, Canadian and NAM computer projections back a more rainy scenario with some mixed precipitation at the end.

The only good thing about all this is that the GFS is clearly the outlier for now, but the other projections could just easily align themselves with what it's spewing out.  And it was consistent in all four of its runs yesterday.  The odds favor the Euro and the Canadian because what the GFS is projecting isn't supposed to happen in my area.  We will see.