Dowery Follow-Up

There is an interesting scale that was created by a couple dudes from the National Weather Service that places storms in a certain category based off snowfall totals and population affected.  The only one I know of is designed for the northeast most likely because of the intensity of the storms and the amount of people in the region.  I've talked about this ranking before.  You can read more about it and all the guidelines if you care at NESIS.

I bring this up because I brought up yesterday that as much as I wanted to ride with the hype over the last storm it just didn't have what it takes to be considered one of those classic storms.  Well the guys at NESIS have already placed the storm into the rankings.  With that said you at least know it made the chart which dates back to storms from the late 1950's.  There are only 55 storms that have been placed in a category as of right now.

Here is the category and value system.  Again if you want details you have to read into it.

It sort of plays out in the same manner as a tornado or hurricane scale.

So where did this mighty storm that dropped three feet of snow in some areas fall on the list?

A big old 2.  Or in other words of the 54 storms already on the list this one fell into 41st. 

In case you are wondering only two have been classified as a category 5.  One was in January of 1996.  The other was the monster March 1993 storm.

Now that we can all calm down let's move on to the next system arriving Sunday night.