Snow Pile In Framingham, Mass. Holds On In 90-Degree Heat

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- As temperatures in the Boston area soar into the 90s, a frigid reminder of the region's long winter clings to life in a Framingham parking lot.

What was once a massive mountain of snow that could support heavy equipment in the winter has shrunk to a dirty pile of ice that this week was still 16 feet long, 8 feet wide and 3 feet high.

Kathy Richov is a chemistry teacher at Marlborough High School. She tells The MetroWest Daily News that the snow pile could hold on until July. She says a layer of dirt is insulating the snow.

"It takes a lot of energy input to melt snow," Richov said, the MetroWest Daily News reported. "The more mass you have in your sample, the more energy that is required to melt it."

The developer that owns the parking lot siad it doesn't have plans to clean up the pile.

The area got as much as 90 inches of snow this winter.

Comments

[AveragePatriot]

12:59 PM on 06/15/2011

So, if we build glaciers......

[willramosrocks]

02:58 PM on 06/11/2011

just spread it out and it will melt a lot easier

[cuoi]

07:33 PM on 06/10/2011

Snow joke...

[Boots16117]

04:01 PM on 06/10/2011

The Framingham Glacier?

[JamieDawn]

03:25 PM on 06/10/2011

Cool!

[Gronkie]

01:16 PM on 06/10/2011

Not a story.

[sean62965]

03:45 PM on 06/10/2011

You clicked on it, read it and posted on it. "Not a story" = you have no life. Its a curiosity. It's 90 degrees and the snow from the past winter is still around.

[Gronkie]

04:09 PM on 06/10/2011

I clicked on it and read it because I thought there might be something more interesting to it. There wasn't. It was a big pile of ice covered with insulating dirt and it isn't even that big anymore. Not much of a curiosity, just a melting snowpile.

I've already spent way more time on this than it deserves.

[StansDad]

12:53 PM on 06/10/2011

spread it out?

[gx5000]

02:34 PM on 06/10/2011

That's is what we do here In Ottawa Canada.
Otherwise all that dirty snow could hang on until end of July.
I'm sure they meant to troll anti climate change people.