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Snow in our forecast

Weather historians would say it’s unlikely that tomorrow’s forecast 2-4 inches of snow can possibly come true. It’s been five years since we had any snow at all and that was barely enough to make a snowball.

But, then, after twelve years of global cooling and an extended solar minimum, the trend is headed that way. Our winters have been coming earlier and a very cold Canadian air mass is scheduled to push through this afternoon.

Just checked the latest weather service update, however, and they’re already pooh-poohing the previously anticipated amount of snow. A low cloud deck is pushing eastward and the atmosphere is drying such that "as of right now the trend is down for accumulating snows on Friday." Looks like flurries are most likely. Whew.

UPDATE:  Revised forecast at 1 p.m. has snow accumulation of less than half an inch. More like it.

Bypassing spring…

…and going straight to summer. It’s forecast to hit 82 degrees today, according to the National Weather Service, for what surely has to be the first time in three or four months. I’ll have to check this out. But that sounds right.

UPDATE  It’s 80 degrees in the city at 2:30 p.m. KVUE’s Mark Murray says Saturday is the last average freeze day for the area, but some cold Canadian air could arrive late next week to change that. Rather have rain, but none to speak of forecast yet.