Where was it when it officially became a named storm? That's right, Magellan, right where you say all this cold water is. Before that it was just a low, that started north of Atlanta.
A week ago they correctly predicted the development of this unusual storm. By two days ago they had the track relatively correct. They were correct about it briefly hitting cat 1 stage. They never made absolute predictions about rain accumulations, they only gave us the many varying models available. Hopefully the most extreme models are incorrect, and the dry air being pulled in continues to help keep the rain totals down. They have been giving out as much information as possible hoping to avoid a surprise like 2016.
We have received 4” this far, and it’s raining hard now.
Your cold water nonsense is just that, nonsense.