# I do find one foot of snow in less than 24 hours a tad excessive. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-find-one-foot-of-snow-in-less-than-24-hours-a-tad-excessive/646917 "2013-01-12T00:27:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-find-one-foot-of-snow-in-less-than-24-hours-a-tad-excessive/646917/261 "2013-05-03T19:58:09Z")
Ummm, almost all of our snow is gone, I have a small patch in the shade of my backyard and the ice is starting to melt off the lake…Also, high of 25 C by Monday. Yay? I don’t want to say it too loud in case I jinx it… I may just be able to ride to work yet!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-find-one-foot-of-snow-in-less-than-24-hours-a-tad-excessive/646917/262 "2013-05-04T01:31:20Z")
I wish it would stop snowing and sleeting long enough for us to get out and clean up the damage from all the snowing and the sleeting. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-find-one-foot-of-snow-in-less-than-24-hours-a-tad-excessive/646917/263 "2013-05-04T10:15:24Z")
As I predicted, the dry summer is already upon us (we don’t get summer rain). Two fires are raging with hot, dry, Santa Ana winds driving them. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-find-one-foot-of-snow-in-less-than-24-hours-a-tad-excessive/646917/264 "2013-07-30T16:00:19Z")
**AN UPDATE** : Is this the beginning of the Great Saskatchewn Glacier? The Regina snow dump is still there, even though the Enviro Canada guy was predicting it would be gone by now: [We still have snow (lots of it) in July!](http://www.leaderpost.com/still+have+snow+lots+July/8716196/story.html) > [@](#): > > Environment Canada’s senior climatologist predicted in late May that warmer than-normal temperatures in June and July would melt the mountain of snow dumped at the storage site in the southwest quadrant of McDonald and Fleet streets. > > Well, it’s nearly August and massive black mounds of unmelted ice remain at Regina’s snow dump. So if it doesn’t melt by the end of September, and the snow starts in October … ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-find-one-foot-of-snow-in-less-than-24-hours-a-tad-excessive/646917/265 "2013-07-30T16:11:08Z")
Well, that ain’t right. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-find-one-foot-of-snow-in-less-than-24-hours-a-tad-excessive/646917/266 "2013-07-30T16:20:46Z")
> [@](#): > > … Canada’s sunniest province… Ignorance fought! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-find-one-foot-of-snow-in-less-than-24-hours-a-tad-excessive/646917.md?page=13)