Possible record-breaking-snowman melting thread

[ad hoc]

So, denizens of the Mundane Thread know that some teenaged kids in my village constructed a huge 10m+ snowman without any form of machinery (specifically, just shovelling, climbing with ladders, and in some cases finding more snow in other parts of the village and bringing it to the main square by horse cart). Here it is:



Now we have bids on when this will have totally melted (defined as the last piece of snow disappearing from the spot where the snowman is). I'm starting a new thread because I know I'l never be able to find it in the Mundane thread.

[ad hoc]

Current bids

Gangster Octopus - 25th February
Gerontophile - 28th February
tee rex - 1st March
Benjm - 6th March
Felicity, I guess so - 11th March
elguapo4 - 13th March
MsD - 15th March
Ek weet nie - 17th March
Satchmo Distel - 19th March
nmrfox - 22nd March
Toby Gymshorts 26th March
Antepli Erdejha - 27th March
Incandenza - 28th March
Various Artist - 29th March
Guy Profumo - 30th March
pebblethefish - 1st April
Patrick Thistle - 2nd April
Auntie Beryl - 4th April (free at last)
Femme Folle - 5th April
G-Man - 6th April
Southport Zeb - 9th April
hobbes - 10th April
Sam - 11th April
Sits - 13th April
blameless - 15th April
Wouter - 16th April
Lang Spoon - 18th April
wiblfibl - 19th April
diggedy derek - 20th April
3 Colours Red - 22nd April
ursus arctos 24th April
delicatemoth - 27th April
San Bernardhinault - 30th April
Kevin S - 4th May
Capybara - 5th May
Jah Womble - 14th May
WOM - 24th May
Janik - 28th May
Hot Pepsi - 1st June
Duncan Gardner - 11th July
EIM -11th February, 2019


All welcome. You'll have to trust me to be the final judge of when it has officially gone.

[hobbes]

10th April.
An auspicious day.

[Capybara]

That's wonderful (the snowman). Well done all concerned. I don't know the first thing about Transylvanian weather but I'll go for 5th May as it's my mother's 90th birthday.

[Guy Profumo]

Go on then.

30th March (!)

[Benjm]

6th March for me please.

Likewise, I'd like to say that this is the result of in-depth analysis of Transylvanian meteorological data, but it's another family birthday led selection.

[Wouter D]

April 16.

[wiblflibl]

Having cast the runes, studied the tea leaves and held a wet finger up to find out whatever it is that holding up a wet finger tells you, I'll go for a family birthday/wedding anniversary double-up date: April 19th.

[Gerontophile]

28th February. There's going to be a warm wind. (Or some fucker is going to destroy it.)

[Duncan Gardner]

11th July

[ad hoc]

28th February. There's going to be a warm wind. (Or some fucker is going to destroy it.)

Actually there has been a decided rise in temperatures the last two days. We're above zero at the moment. But I suspect 28th Feb is optimistic.

[Ek weet nie]

I’ll be patriotic and go for the 17th of March.

[MsD]

15 March for me.

[G-Man]

April 6.

[Auntie Beryl]

Early morning, April 4.

[blameless]

That's an awesome bit of work by the kids there.

Banked-up and compacted snow melts incredibly slowly unless there's a dramatic increase in temperature and lots of rain; so I'm going to say halfway through April (15th to be precise).

[ad hoc]

That's an awesome bit of work by the kids there.

Banked-up and compacted snow melts incredibly slowly unless there's a dramatic increase in temperature and lots of rain; so I'm going to say halfway through April (15th to be precise).

Yes I think a lot will depend on how much rain we get.

[Jah Womble]

Yeah, I'm in.

Assuming that we're talking the absolute last visible evidence - May 14th.

[pebblethefish]

Oh go on then, April 1

[Satchmo Distel]

March 19 please

[Gangster Octopus]

Actually there has been a decided rise in temperatures the last two days. We're above zero at the moment. But I suspect 28th Feb is optimistic.

I'll bite: 25th of February. It would've been my grandfather's 115th birthday...

[Janik]

28th May

Either way, we need to race the Székely Snowman against the Nenana Ice Classic. I think the Alaskan operation is more sophisticated, though the tripod clearly hasn't been planted as yet.

[EIM]

What's the nose? An enormous carrot?

February 11th. 2019.

[ad hoc]

What's the nose? An enormous carrot?

I think it's a piece of wood. The buttons are definitely slices of a log, painted black

[WOM]

May 24. Victoria Day long weekend.