The weather guy has a point. Joe Bastardi points out that the European and Japanese models for North America have been to be closer to what happens than the US models.
Between the Algor progressives, Obama AAs, and plain old Tammany Hall style pork politics, I don't see it getting seriously reworked by competent people any time soon.
It was the European model that got it wrong and it was the US GFS model that got it right.