The whole thing was spoiled a bit by those questionable CET values and I have nothing against anyone involved in the various outcomes that these numbers produced, but I see very little difference in the outcomes for many of the top ten so in my mind it's more of a photo finish that you could interpret any way you want. It's unusual and unfortunate that it had to be this month in this particular set of circumstances. We are used to more clear-cut results both in the contest and in the CET values. I hope the latter doesn't become a trend because what's the point of tracking their preliminary values if they are going to make corrections this large? We have been used to seeing corrections of about 0.2 to 0.4 in the past. I think if you fixed up that very suspect data point for the 30th, then you have either 7.5 or 7.6 which is more like the usual correction given that the preliminary data finished around 7.84. 

This is the last comment I plan to make about all this, hope nobody's offended by my lack of enthusiasm for the outcome, obviously it didn't help me or several others that they did this combination of big adjustment with dubious data point, but then as I've said in the past, the easiest way to predict the adjustment is to look at my forecast value and imagine what is the worst possible adjustment for that. It happens so regularly that I suppose the reason for it is that I have somehow managed to channel the preliminary finishing values and keep predicting those. It's a skill of some sort I suppose. I think there has been one time out of maybe fifty that the adjustment actually helped me.

Thanks to J 10 for going to the trouble of showing the potential outcomes at various CET values and of course for all the work on scoring the CET contests through long stretches of modern civilization. That was about what I had guessed to be the case although I thought the differential was so slight that Stargazer probably had a chance to win from 7.9 and maybe 7.8 as well. Evidently not. Dancerwithwings, I think you might have gotten up to about 3rd or 4th place at 7.6, but all these scores are so close it would take ages to figure it all out. The more important factoid is that overall it was a much closer top ten than usual no matter what the final value chosen.

I'm thankful that the EWP contest had such a low maintenance finish, the only way Feb1991Blizzard could have lost would have been if he forgot to enter or said 200 mm perhaps. 

Are you still talking about the snow level 😳