List of Northeast snowfall impact scale winter storms

[1] The scale was developed by meteorologists Paul Kocin and Louis Uccellini, and ranks snowstorms from category 1 ("notable") to category 5 ("extreme").

[2] The scale, as devised, is intended chiefly to assess past storms rather than assist in forecasts.

This scale takes into account population size of the Northeast, and thus snowfall amounts are often not that high.

The original values that Paul Kocin and Louis Uccellini computed for storms in their original 2004 work "A Snowfall Impact Scale Derived From Northeast Storm Snowfall Distributions" and the NESIS storm values recomputed using some different data and differing methods by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in 2005 to productionize their work for assigning values to future storm storms beyond Kocin/Uccellini work.

NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information publishes a list of storms with ratings and other information, starting with the March 1956 storm.

A series of charts, accompanied by a map, used to describe an equation
Description of the NESIS scale
A multicolored satellite view of the eastern United States and a large, expansive storm system. The comma-shaped storm extends from southern Canada to Central America.
Satellite image of the 1993 Storm of the Century , the highest-ranking NESIS storm
Ground-level view of deep snow and drifts between two city buildings.
Snow drifts from the North American blizzard of 1996
A green truck pushing a yellow snowplow amid falling snow.
A car almost completely buried in snow following the January 2016 United States blizzard
A weather map detailing a large storm near New England.
Surface weather analysis of the Great Blizzard of 1888 on March 12
A blue house in a snow-covered property on a hillside. Tire tracks are visible on the bottom-right.
Snowfall from the North American blizzard of 2007 in Vermont