OKpowdah Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I'm surprised this storm made a cat 3...but its clearly because of the snow included well out west. If only the snow in the northeast was counted, it probably would have been a cat 1 or maybe a low end 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKpowdah Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 Didn't this storm feature more significant snowfall down south too? It's strange where they decide to make the cutoff, since they included the accumulations in the midwest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sankaty Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Didn't this storm feature more significant snowfall down south too? It's strange where they decide to make the cutoff, since they included the accumulations in the midwest. Yup. It seems they only included snowfall from the northern stream system. I guess it's because the southern stream system almost completely fizzled before it's moisture was sucked into the northern stream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman21 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I'm surprised this storm made a cat 3...but its clearly because of the snow included well out west. If only the snow in the northeast was counted, it probably would have been a cat 1 or maybe a low end 2. Surprised anything outside of the northeast counts considering what NESIS stands for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 For me it was pretty "meh". For CT it was terrific. Not sure why what happened in Kansas matters for this scale... just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 i wonder if the late jan KU will get a higher rating than boxing day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 i wonder if the late jan KU will get a higher rating than boxing day wow, even this storm scored higher than boxing day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Surprised anything outside of the northeast counts considering what NESIS stands for. I know it's fundamentally and originally a Northeastern US-oriented scale, but in my research of KU storms I've never found anything that precludes NESIS from being applied to snowstorms anywhere in the country (or world for that matter). I don't think the geographical aspect of the algorithm is or needs to be specific to a specific region of the globe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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