EDMONTON, ALBERTA - Last Winter's Snow has finally melted

Edmonton’s snow has finally melted, just in time to start all over again...

Crews add snow to the record 150-200 foot high snow dump near 190th St. and 108th Ave. in Edmonton on March 8, 2011.

It took almost the entire summer — including a week of above-average September heat — but the last remnants of snow in Edmonton have finally melted.
A pile of snow at the city’s west end storage facility finally officially melted to the ground at 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, after months of cooler-than-usual temperatures, the City of Edmonton announced Monday on its Twitter account.
And with snow in Edmonton all but guaranteed by November, and perhaps earlier, it will likely be only weeks before the site is visited by the wet stuff again.
This year the facilities held more than the average amount of snow, thanks to the long, snowy winter that Edmonton endured.
In a typical winter season, the city moves about 800,000 cubic metres of snow. By January this year, crews had already moved more than 900,000 cubic metres.
As recently as the beginning of September, the pile at the west-end storage facility was still about three metres high.
The piles typically melt down by July. (edmontonjounal.com)