Hottest year ever update, June 3 edition: So alarmingly warm that St. Paul snow pile may be completely melted in only another 7-10 days

Hard-packed snow in Rice Street parking lot won't go away - TwinCities.com

The awful winter of 2010-11 isn't quite over.

Despite the fact that it's June and the forecast calls for temperatures to climb close to 90 degrees today, you can still have a snowball fight (a really dirty snowball fight) and slide down a snow hill (a really short slide) right here in St. Paul.
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"I didn't think anybody figured it would take this long," said Joe Dinnebier, ground support services manager at the state Capitol.

But he said that with temperatures forecast in the 80s next week, he figures the frozen mound at Sears only has about seven to 10 days left.