Absolute Humidity Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Score 3.31 p. Cat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormlover74 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Surprising. Guess because of the large areal coverage What's with the 2 specks of 10-20"? Surely more areas got more than 10" than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 Surprising. Guess because of the large areal coverage What's with the 2 specks of 10-20"? Surely more areas got more than 10" than that. funny thing is one of those specs is directly over my house. In all seriousness, I believe it was William who said this would end up being a Cat 2. Congrats to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 Correction: Its # 36 all time. Mods feel free to correct. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/rsi/nesis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfsheepsheadbay Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I like the 10-20" speck over Monmouth Cty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user13 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 funny thing is one of those specs is directly over my house. In all seriousness, I believe it was William who said this would end up being a Cat 2. Congrats to him. Lol the other blue spec is right over my house in Queens. I ended right around 11.5" - Add another KU to our remarkable 10 year period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 is chicago included in the nesis rating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm93 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB GFI Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I like the 10-20" speck over Monmouth Cty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user13 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 is chicago included in the nesis rating? Dont think so.. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/rsi/?nesis http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/rsi/nesis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 Lol the other blue spec is right over my house in Queens. I ended right around 11.5" - Add another KU to our remarkable 10 year period. I attribute the last 1-3" to the Norlun that set up over Monmouth to Queens and Nassau and Suffolk during the mid morning hours of he 3rd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user13 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I attribute the last 1-3" to the Norlun that set up over Monmouth to Queens and Nassau and Suffolk during the mid morning hours of he 3rd. Yea that was great. - I also had a nice band earlier in the storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn0waddict Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Whole bunch of Meh here, but the NYC area and especially Boston got hit pretty hard. Didn't think it would end up being a KU type event though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 Whole bunch of Meh here, but the NYC area and especially Boston got hit pretty hard. Didn't think it would end up being a KU type event though. NESIS is scored by total population impacted by the amount of snow over a given area. A 6" snowfall from DC to Maine will garnish a a much greater score than 2 feet over Connecticut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 Even Dec 15 - 16th 2013 made the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user13 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Since population is slowly increasing I guess future similar storms will always grade higher than previous ones. It like weather inflation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn0waddict Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 NESIS is scored by total population impacted by the amount of snow over a given area. A 6" snowfall from DC to Maine will garnish a a much greater score than 2 feet over Connecticut. Oh I know what NESIS is, I'm just surprised it was a high enough impact storm to get KU status.. I didn't realize DC to Southern Maine all got >4 inches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman9 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Interesting, I had 5" in midtown east. For anyone who lives long enough it won't actually be a memorable storm. Those category numbers are a bit misrepresentational as well, since tropical storm Sandy was just a wee bit more disruptive than cat 2 Nemo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 Interesting, I had 5" in midtown east. For anyone who lives long enough it won't actually be a memorable storm. Those category numbers are a bit misrepresentational as well, since tropical storm Sandy was just a wee bit more disruptive than cat 2 Nemo. It snowed over 2 feet for many in update NY and around Boston. 10 - 14" over Long Island and 11" IMBY between 12 and 7 degrees above 0. How many storms can you remember being that cold? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman9 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 It snowed over 2 feet for many in update NY and around Boston. 10 - 14" over Long Island and 11" IMBY between 12 and 7 degrees above 0. How many storms can you remember being that cold? Yeah, I suppose the temp did make it unique...that was nice for a change on the coastal plain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBG Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Whole bunch of Meh here, but the NYC area and especially Boston got hit pretty hard. Didn't think it would end up being a KU type event though.The KU designation is, in my opinion, pathetic. Oh I know what NESIS is, I'm just surprised it was a high enough impact storm to get KU status.. I didn't realize DC to Southern Maine all got >4 inches.I thought a KU had to have 10" in three of five I-95 cities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 I think the 1/21 event will be a Cat 2 NESIS 3.11, a hair under the 1/2 storm due to lack of 4-10" coverage despite have a larger 10" + area in the big cities than 1/2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormlover74 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 The KU designation is, in my opinion, pathetic. I thought a KU had to have 10" in three of five I-95 cities. No for example the VD 2007 storm is on the list and nobody got 10" except for maybe boston but had a widespread impact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnoSki14 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I hope some of the areas far west aren't involved in the NESIS scale, but the KU designation has become a bit too easy to achieve nowadays, a bit too broad in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDMK6GLI Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I hope some of the areas far west aren't involved in the NESIS scale, but the KU designation has become a bit too easy to achieve nowadays, a bit too broad in my opinion. Its not so much its easy. The storms we've been getting have been widespread in the amounts over the 2000's. you have a storm that dumps 10" or more over millions of people its going to be a NESIS which is what we've been experiencing. The storm in january is a NESIS because it dumped signifigant snow that impacted travel over a wide swath of the northeast region. Look at the map, snowfall and population in those areas and you'll see why it gets into the books. The system really does take into many factors for a NESIS ranked storm, luckily mother nature has been giving them to us alot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 I hope some of the areas far west aren't involved in the NESIS scale, but the KU designation has become a bit too easy to achieve nowadays, a bit too broad in my opinion. There're plenty of smaller KU events listed.. The metrics have not changed to determine what is and what ain't a KU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 There're plenty of smaller KU events listed.. The metrics have not changed to determine what is and what ain't a KU.population growth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 Not a bad match here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pamela Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I hope some of the areas far west aren't involved in the NESIS scale, but the KU designation has become a bit too easy to achieve nowadays, a bit too broad in my opinion. That's why there are 5 levels...every snowstorm isn't January 1996...but often times they are still noteworthy. I thought both storms this month were very low grade KU's if we compare them to snowstorms previously so designated...the March 2009 storm got the lowest KU rating and it really only impacted Long Island, coastal NJ, & SE New England with substantial (but certainly not crippling) snow falls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pamela Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I hope some of the areas far west aren't involved in the NESIS scale, but the KU designation has become a bit too easy to achieve nowadays, a bit too broad in my opinion. Obviously I don't know how long you have been a weather watcher in the area; but I could venture to infer that the extraordinary frequency of major snow events since 2000 may well have skewed people's perceptions...WSO Upton has had 10 snowstorms of 10 inches or greater since March 2009...less than a 5 year span...from March 1983 to February 1993, I do not believe they recorded even one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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