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Jan 11-12 Model/Forecasting Discussion


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I'm not sure why, but its really grating on my nerves that the NYC thread is repeatedly crowing about the fact that the Dec 26th storm is ranked higher on the NESIS then the Feb 5th 2010 storm. To me that is proof that the NESIS scale is flawed and needs to be fixed. The are of truly crippling snow was very limited with the December 26th event, it just happened to be right over the largest metro area in the Nation. The Feb 5th storm had significant snowfall over a massive expanse and truly mind numbing amounts in the mid atlantic. In terms of historic storms it is a much more rare meteorological event yet they seem validated that "their" storm was better. So according to the NESIS scale a 15" storm that hits NYC would be more historic then a 30" storm that hits rural NC and VA?

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I'm not sure why, but its really grating on my nerves that the NYC thread is repeatedly crowing about the fact that the Dec 26th storm is ranked higher on the NESIS then the Feb 5th 2010 storm. To me that is proof that the NESIS scale is flawed and needs to be fixed. The are of truly crippling snow was very limited with the December 26th event, it just happened to be right over the largest metro area in the Nation. The Feb 5th storm had significant snowfall over a massive expanse and truly mind numbing amounts in the mid atlantic. In terms of historic storms it is a much more rare meteorological event yet they seem validated that "their" storm was better. So according to the NESIS scale a 15" storm that hits NYC would be more historic then a 30" storm that hits rural NC and VA?

I get what you are saying about NY crowd. However, I think in this case it maybe should be ranked higher. This is not the thread for this discussion, but I think, even though DC got screwed, there was snow in all of NOrth Carolina, heavy at that by their standards, as well in relatively well-populated Hampton Roads. Throw in a good dose of snow in Philly and Boston, and a raging blizzard in NY, i can see based on how NESIS is set up, it would be ranked higher. But the New York crowd is annoying with stuff like this.. But they have to talk up something since that Norlun Trough didn't quite work out for them today as they had hoped..

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I'm not sure why, but its really grating on my nerves that the NYC thread is repeatedly crowing about the fact that the Dec 26th storm is ranked higher on the NESIS then the Feb 5th 2010 storm. To me that is proof that the NESIS scale is flawed and needs to be fixed. The are of truly crippling snow was very limited with the December 26th event, it just happened to be right over the largest metro area in the Nation. The Feb 5th storm had significant snowfall over a massive expanse and truly mind numbing amounts in the mid atlantic. In terms of historic storms it is a much more rare meteorological event yet they seem validated that "their" storm was better. So according to the NESIS scale a 15" storm that hits NYC would be more historic then a 30" storm that hits rural NC and VA?

NYC weenies are the worst on this board bar none. I hate that subforum.

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