One thing that could constrain Wednesday (and even more so Thursday) is the fact that, owing to high-latitude blocking, there will be some interference from the subtropics that could contaminate the warm sector, or at least limit the longitudinal extent of the best instability axis. If this event were more solely influenced by the polar jet, the subtropical influence would be less of a problem, but in this case prefrontal convection due to the subtropical jet and a leading impulse on Wednesday morning could limit the ceiling of the “main event” later in the day. On the past several EPS runs the main trough also looks more and more occluded/sheared-out vs. earlier during the main part of the event on Wednesday. Most big outbreaks feature a pronounced ML ridge north of the Hawaiian Islands, but in this case high-latitude blocking over AK increases the subtropical influence.