[4]To the surprise of no one affected by the Dec. 18-20, 2009 system that dumped heavy snow from the mid-Atlantic to southern New England, NOAA has rated the storm a Category 3 or “Major” winter storm on NOAA’s Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale [5], also known as NESIS. Topping the NESIS scale—and the only storms rated Category 5—are the “Superstorm” on March, 1993 [6] followed by the “Blizzard of ’96” in January, 1996 [7]. The scale, developed in 2004, catalogues storms dating back to 1888. (More [8])
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