Cold cold and cold - 38C / -36F

[Robert]

Oh my. Cold today!

One thing I tried this morning was to pour warm/hot water in a jug and throw it up in the air. I have seen on youtube where people have done this at around this temperature, and the water instantly freezes in the air. Didn't work for me, and I tried both hot, warm and luke-warm water. Any ideas why it didn't work? Perhaps it has to do with the hardness/softness of the water?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6808503/minus38-camrose-march1-2011.gif

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Video
Maybe it has to be at boiling temperature?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFj_i6HtebM

[Jimi75]

That is pretty cold, but you must be used to minus 38 from living in Sweden, or?

[Robert]

Not minus 38 very often in Umea where I lived. It's by the water, so it rarely gets over minus 30.

[Spudman]

Wow! That's cold. I saw that a cold front was sneaking down on you but I didn't think it would get that cold. Brrrrrrr. Stay warm mate.

[marnold]

I got it to work when I was in Minnesota and it was in the -30sF. I just used a big plastic cup filled with warmish water. I think the key is that the container allows you to launch the water in the air quickly and relatively high. I also did it at night, near a street light. The sunlight might keep it from happening.

[Robert]

I just got a lot of steam, and it looked pretty. I could still hear the water landing in the snow though.

Actually, that's what that video shows too. It's mostly just steam. Look closely and you can see the water falling down under the steam.

[Robert]

I made a video today of this! It had warmed up a couple of degrees before I got the camera out.

Nothing like this in Florida, I imagine... :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEWzchsTiSI

[Bloozcat]

Too bad there isn't some way to 'trade' a few degrees of our heat for a few degrees of your cold, Robert.

We've had several days of unseasonably warm weather here the last week, with a couple of days in the upper 80's F.

About 30 degrees of our heat for 30 degrees of your cold might help a little. Of course, half the people here would act as though a new ice age had started if we did that. Many here truly have no concept of what real cold is like, and those that do, moved here to escape it...:thwap

[Katastrophe]

Brrrrr. Stay warm, brother!

We've had our two weeks of winter. I'm glad it's over.