Winter Storm Alert: 2014-2015 Names Released With Category System!

The winter names for the 2014-2015 season have been released.  TriforceWeather.com has upped the naming process against The Weather Channel in order to bring you the most precise and fair naming system available today, with a set criteria that is fair to you even if you are in a rural area.

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Why?  Winter storm naming is an excellent way to show personality within a storm and also keep track of various winter storms across the country.

Criteria?  The criteria at The Weather Channel is for a populated area to be impacted for the storm to be named.  The also name snow-storms that have no surface low as a criteria.  This to us is extremely unfair to those who live in the middle of the country and may not be a populated area.  Naming storms here at Triforce Weather will include non-populated areas and that isn’t even a criteria.  Here is the criteria for a winter storm to be named.

1.  The storm must have a central surface low.   This means that it must have a deep surface low pressure system.  We will not name overrunning snow events.  Those are incredibly tough to track and it is not like a hurricane.  If the winter storm naming process is going to work we’re going to do it correctly and like hurricane names.  The tracking of an actual surface low like a blizzard in the middle of the country with a sub 990mb surface low or a nor’easter.   This means that the Rocky Mountains may not get winter storm names unless it has a central surface low.  We must plot the actual track of the surface low of the named system in order to name such.

2.  The storm must produce snow in one quadrant – It is a winter storm, it needs snow and this is a criteria.

3.  The storm must produce wind gusts near the surface low (like a hurricane quadrant) in excess of 20-35 mph in wind gusts.

So it must have wind, snow, and a central surface low in order to be classified a name here at Triforce Weather.com.  It does not need to impact a populated area.  This is unfair to those whom do not live there and we aren’t in it for ratings.  We want it to be fair to all sections of the United States

CATEGORY SYSTEM – Triforce Weather has developed a category system this year for the classified winter storm names.  Not only do you get a winter storm name, but you get a 1-6 category number for it.

Category One – 1-5″ of snow with 20-35 mph wind gusts.
Category Two – 6-11″ of snow with 20-35 mph wind gusts.
Category Three – 12-17″ of snow with 35-50mph wind gusts.
Category Four – 18-23″ of snow with 50-65 mph wind gusts.
Category Five – 24-29″ of snow with 65-80 mph wind gusts.
Category Six – 30″ of snow with 80+ mph wind gusts.

So there you have it.  This type of system for naming + categorizing will trump what TWC has to offer you.  This is how it should be done, scientifically and fairly.