Originally Posted by
skylady
You really don't want to spend your last 5 minutes of fuel skirting a storm, when you could be safely on the ground.

While this is true, it still doesn't answer the question of why there were only five minutes of fuel left when nothing unusual seemed to have happened. Some plausible scenarios have been suggested, but all the same it's at least a little odd to be low on fuel before your originally scheduled landing time.