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Major boom or bust winter storm

Below are four forecast models just posted by Fox19.  Big differences.  One says no snow, two say a foot or more.  What do you do with that?  For now, I will stick with the 4-8 forecast but realize we are not much closer to resolving this than 24 hours ago.  This storm could be boom or bust.  Perhaps we’ll know more in the morning!

'Here are the latest snowfall totals by different models, big differences equal big forecast challenges #19WeatherNOw'
 
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Rain and snow update

US National Weather Service Wilmington OH
As rain transitions to snow on Wednesday, it appears the possibility of accumulating snows (some significant) is on the increase for northern Kentucky, southeast Indiana, and extreme southern Ohio. Still a great deal of uncertainty here due to timing of precipitation changeover and how much precipitation spreads deeper into the cold air, but trends were enough to begin issuing Winter Storm Watches today, and further expansion of these watches may be needed in future updates. Monitor the forecast for the potential of tricky travel Wednesday afternoon through Thursday morning!
'As rain transitions to snow on Wednesday, it appears the possibility of accumulating snows (some significant) is on the increase for northern Kentucky, southeast Indiana, and extreme southern Ohio. Still a great deal of uncertainty here due to timing of precipitation changeover and how much precipitation spreads deeper into the cold air, but trends were enough to begin issuing Winter Storm Watches today, and further expansion of these watches may be needed in future updates. Monitor the forecast for the potential of tricky travel Wednesday afternoon through Thursday morning!'

US National Weather Service Wilmington OH

A great deal of weather coming at us this week. Some threat for light icing Tuesday morning (more on that coming in a bit) but we’ve also got warm air and rain that will spread into the area together and work to melt much of the snow. Rainfall amounts from 1 to 2″, in combination of a release of 0.5 to 1″ of water stored up in snow/ice, means flooding potential increases especially Tuesday night/Wednesday morning before cold air moves back in.

'A great deal of weather coming at us this week. Some threat for light icing Tuesday morning (more on that coming in a bit) but we've also got warm air and rain that will spread into the area together and work to melt much of the snow. Rainfall amounts from 1 to 2", in combination of a release of 0.5 to 1" of water stored up in snow/ice, means flooding potential increases especially Tuesday night/Wednesday morning before cold air moves back in.'