Global Warming, 2018 - 2019 -- A Lingering Winter -- May 10, 2019

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Later, 9:20 a.m. CT: so much for all that global warming drought. First it was snow (see below); now it's floods. Beware the "solar minima."

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Minnesota: I find this absolutely stunning, incredible, ironic, and so much else. For this to happen at this point in time -- all the hyperbole about global warming. I was also impressed that a reader saw this coming a couple of days ago -- I think he saw it even before the National Weather Service confirmed it -- that we were about to see another winter snow record broken. And here it is: a May snowstorm breaks a 117-year-old Minnesota record. Wow.

While the calendar shows it's more than six weeks into spring, Mother Nature dealt a wintry blow to Minnesota with a winter-like storm that unleashed historic snow amounts in some locations on Wednesday into Thursday.

The same storm system that brought an outbreak of severe weather to the South-Central states through the first portion of this week created enough cold air to produce a zone of heavy accumulating snow on its northwestern side.

Snow fell along a zone from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to Duluth, Minnesota. While not accumulating, snowflakes even managed to fall in parts of Minneapolis.

Through Thursday morning, Duluth was blanketed with 10.6 inches of snow for this event and 10.9 inches total for the month, leading to a number of broken snowfall records, according to data from the National Weather Service. One spot just southwest of Duluth reported 12 inches of snow as of Thursday afternoon.

Colorado: "Spring" snow for Colorado. Link here.

Snow is falling heavily in the mountains and roads are snow covered and slippery. Rain is changing over to snow in the Denver area and will accumulate to a few inches on grassy surfaces early Thursday.

The operative word is "heavily." LOL.

I find this fascinating.