Are We Going Into An Ice Age?

[Baalzamon]

For any paying attention, here's a little update on our situation!

So that last storm wound up being further SE than expected. St. Cloud picked up only about 2.5" of snow, but there were 6+" amounts to our southeast.

We FINALLY hit not only 50, but also 60 for the first time this year on April 26, 2013. Today, we had a high of about 75, and it is supposed to be about 75 tomorrow as well, as well as upper 60's on Monday and Tuesday.

BUT!!!!!!!!!!

There was disagreement among the models yesterday, but they pretty much all have it now. Beginning next Wednesday, the models are showing the potential for another doozy of a snowstorm. I'm not just talking a tiny inch or two. We all know, as much as we hate it, its possible to get flurries in May in Minnesota. I'm talking, doozy as in areas in Minnesota (if the models are onto something) will be reporting by a massive margin the largest snowstorm ever in Minnesota in May in our recordbooks.

The models have about 2-6" here (which even though not a ton, for May is completely unheard of). Further south (and to make it clear, I'm even being conservative and going with an 8:1 ratio just because its so late in the year that the temps won't be the greatest), models are hinting at 10-20" of snow. Now, we all know models can overdo it at times, but even if we half this, that would still be 5-10" of snow (and the plain and simple fact is, all the models have 1.5-3" of qpf for this long duration event, so the liquid is there, we just need to temps).

If this does indeed happen, what a friggin way to end the winter that wouldn't give up.

While climatology wouldn't in any way support this happening, climatology also doesn't support getting 25-30" of snow in April with 2 of the bigger storms seen this year. Looking back, I wasn't able to find a ton, but I was able to find something indicating that it isn't impossible for this to happen: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=may27291947snow

That particular snowstorm dumped up to 12" of snow on Nebraska and Iowa, and that wasn't even at the beginning of May, that one began May 27th (1947). It takes the most perfect conditions for something like this to happen, but with a year that has been like this so far, I honestly wouldn't put it behind the weather gods to dump on us yet again a pile of that damned fluffy white cum.