Are you kidding? Snow in the forecast

Is it May yet?

A front moving down from the Gulf of Alaska will hit Western Washington late Wednesday night night and Thursday morning. And with it may come snow showers north of Seattle.

We're not talking snowpocalypse here. Some scatter showers is all.

Still, it is the third week of April. We've already had a wetter-than-normal March and a cold April. The forecasters at KOMO-TV note that we've yet to have a 60-degree day in April in Seattle and that the city has had a mere two days this year when the temperature reached 55 degrees.

And La Nina isn't done.

"The upper trough will move across the forecast area tonight and Thursday morning," forecasters at the National Weather Service say, "bringing scattered showers to the area. Precipitation amounts will not be very significant. But a Puget Sound convergence zone will almost certainly develop later Wednesday night or Thursday morning, and the air mass will again be cold enough for the possibility of showers falling as wet snow over the interior lowlands of Western Washington."

That probably means rain but no snow in Seattle, and a high temperature in low 50s on Thursday.

But Everett, which is fast becoming the great white north, might see scattered snow showers after 11 p.m. Wednesday and before 11 a.m. Thursday. The snow level will probably rise from 500 to 1,400 in the Everett area on Thursday.

Lynnwood can expect some snow before 11 a.m. Thursday. The snow level there will rise from 600 to 1,600 feet during the day.

Temperatures in Everett and Lynnwood should reach into the lower 50s Thursday.

But spring, or at least a taste of it, might be on the way. The sun will likely return Friday and Saturday, when temperatures might reach 60 degrees.

Get more weather information and changes in the forecast at seattlepi.com.

Scott Sunde can be reached at 206-448-8331 or scottsunde@seattlepi.com. Follow Scott on Twitter at twitter.com/scottsunde.