GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE: May snowstorm breaks 117-year-old record in Minnesota - Updated

May snowstorm breaks 117-year-old record in Minnesota

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.
The 8.3 inches on Wednesday, May 8, set the all-time record for most snow on a single day in the month of May. The previous record was 5.5 inches, set on May 10, 1902. The burst of May snow also shattered the record for the snowiest month of May ever in Duluth, eclipsing the previous record of 8.1 total inches of snow set in May of 1954. It was also the snowiest May 8 in Duluth history as the more than 8 inches of snow surpassed the previous record for the day of 5 inches set way back in 1924. Record-keeping began in 1884.

Up to 16 inches of snow in Denver!

DENVER — 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.
Winter Storm Warnings are in effect for the mountains above 10,000 feet until 6 PM Thursday. The snow will accumulate to 8 to 16 in the mountains, Denver should see 1 to 3 inch accumulations on grassy areas, with 3 to 6 inches over the southern and western suburbs above 6,000 feet.
Roads will be snow-covered and slippery in the mountains and slushy in the Denver area for the Thursday morning drive.
The weather will stay cool and unsettled Thursday with more showers and highs in the low 40s.
Chilly and unsettled weather will stick around through Friday with temperatures well below normal for early May. A Freeze Warning is in effect for Denver and the eastern plains early Friday as lows drop to the upper 20s to low 30s.