Valentine’s Day Winter Storm Classified as a Category 3
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 PropertyThe winter storm that struck the Northeast and mid-Atlantic region on Valentine’s Day, piling up snow and ice, snarling both car and airline traffic and plunging thousands into the dark was classified as "major," or a Category 3, on the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale, or NESIS, according to the NOAA National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. NESIS, which NOAA made operational last year, ranked this Northeast storm as having the 14th biggest impact out of a sample of 34 of the largest winter storms since 1950, and it was one of the largest winter storms to strike interior sections of the Northeast (as opposed to coastal areas) since 1950.
External References & Further Reading
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/s2803.htm
