GC and I have had our eye on this pile of snow for awhile now. We even had a little bet on how long it would be until it completely melted. Unfortunately we couldn’t remember what dates we guessed, so we had to start over. At the same time we decided to expand the contest to include you.
Some pertinent details:
This picture was taken yesterday.
The snow pile is on Merivale Road in Ottawa, across from an empty Experimental Farm field, and is on the east side of the building visible in the photo.
As you can see, the snow still reaches close to the second floor of the parking garage.
All the snow was dumped there over the course of the winter by a little snowplow from the top floor of the parking garage.
Here’s a link to the Ottawa weather forecast (in metric).
There will be a prize for whoever most accurately predicts the date on which this pile of snow disappears. Guesses will be accepted until noon on Wednesday April 13. Leave your guess in the comments. In the event of duplicate guesses, the first one wins. I will check and photograph the pile daily. The winner and the prize will be announced when the snow is gone.
I predict April 17th as the date.
April 29th.
My lucky number is 27 so I will choose that.
What month would that be, Grace?
April
I’m going with June 1st.
June 3, 2011 is my guess. I LOVED Kazoo’s shower video! Thanks so much for making me smile hugely for so long. Excellent medicine. How often does the process occur?
I’m glad you liked it. Weekly, on average. We don’t want him to take it for granted.;)
How about April 25th?
may 3rd – east side only gets morning light so low night terms mean more than high day temps. Its compacted, its going to go slowly.
We’re adding ducks to our mix here – Indian runner ducks – go google them you’d like them
I’m thinking the rain will be more of a factor and banking on the April showers . . .
24 June
May 6 –
I am thinking that May 5th is the day
April 18. Federal tax due date in the States this year. That combination of “hell freezing over” thing….
April 29th in time for that wedding thing in England
May 8
How about May 1?
That’s a ton of snow. I’ll go with my birthday, April 23.
May 2nd!
Damn! I missed the deadline by 36 minutes.
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