It’s the day after New England’s first significant storm of the season, and if you compare the snowfall prediction maps for Tuesday’s weather event with the actual totals, this was a well-behaved storm — and a well forecast one.

By the time Sunday afternoon rolled around, most meteorologists were aware that this weather system was going to be generally a rainstorm for Greater Boston, with a rain-snow line far to the west across the Interstate 495 belt and points north. Snowfall, according to the forecasts, would be particularly heavy over northern Worcester and Middlesex counties and into Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

Storms are not obviously this well-predicted all the time. You can be assured, there’s going to be a storm this winter with snowfall amounts over or under forecast

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