The Aud

[plam]

Also, what is the difference between “very cold, condensed frozen water” and snow? I know the arena “snow” arises from a different process so may have a different physical form, but it turns into the exact same stuff when it melts so I fail to see why it can’t just be piled anywhere that other snow may be piled.

I don't have numbers but I did grow up in Montreal and I observed the banks of snow that were always next to the community arenas that did not melt and the banks of snow that were in the mall parking lots that did melt. Since it was recently in ice form, I could see that the frozen water next to the arena could be harder to melt than the fluffy white stuff that falls from the sky.