Update on January 7-10th Potential Winter Storm

Latest GFS runs show the first disturbance in the chain (the one yesterday's was predicting on or around the 6th-7th) being much weaker than it did yesterday, leading me to believe that while we may receive some snow, it won't be of any real note. The more interesting, potentially much more significant January 9th-10th storm, however, is beginning to look as though it may be a classic Panhandle Hook.

The questions that remain are:

a) Whether the storm will manifest (duh)
b) Whether there will be enough high pressure out east to force it into our area rather than up the east coast
c) What precipitation mode it will bring

If this run's forecast were to verify, I'd say we'd be looking at significant snowfall in lower Michigan (more than 6 inches) on the 9th or 10th. It's still way too early to tell if this is going to be our future, though.