Throwing Water into the Air at -52 ?

[STP]

Not me or my vid, but thought it was pretty cool… I mean cold?

 

[Zero]

I've heard of people doing that with hot coffee, but have never seen it. Pretty cool. And I thought it was colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra here, currently 27 deg.

 

[Grangerous]

100 degrees warmer and people in Florida will be wearing two sweaters and shivering in front of a fire.

 

[warren]

Learned that at the U. of Alaska many years ago. We tossed buckets of water off the dorm roof, five stories up. Vaporized before it hit the ground.

 

[FurCoat]

Very cool

 

[kcghost]

Damn, I hate the cold.

 

[Pipeoff]

I don’t mind the cold just layer up but you can just take off so much before you get arrested.

 

[sallow]

I did that once with Wile E. Coyote

 

[mso489]

I think Alaskans get addicted to the cold. If they come down to a more moderate climate, they feel like they are living in sin. I grew up in the Chicago area, which is hardly Alaska, but I was attracted to walking in the cold. I walked from a train station to the lakefront one time at 9 below, alone at night. Not smart ordinarily, but at that temperature, if you didn't freeze to death, you were pretty safe. No one was out. When you're young, you're nuts anyway.

 

[musicman]

I used to do that off my apartment balcony when I lived in Minnesota. Once the air temp got below -15 f or so, a cup of boiling water was guaranteed to freeze into a snow/ice mixture before it hit the ground. Cool!

Then I moved to Arizona, where I was able to make hot tea outside during the summer when it was over 110 f.

Now I’m in southern Ohio where I don’t have to deal with either extreme.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Damn, It's a freakin cold 75F here, I can't wait for this shit to pass, so we can get the pool opened back up.

 

[leonardbill1]

I guess that there isn't a lot to do in Fairbanks in the winter.

 

[JKoD]

I think Alaskans get addicted to the cold. If they come down to a more moderate climate, they feel like they are living in sin. I grew up in the Chicago area, which is hardly Alaska, but I was attracted to walking in the cold. I walked from a train station to the lakefront one time at 9 below, alone at night. Not smart ordinarily, but at that temperature, if you didn't freeze to death, you were pretty safe. No one was out. When you're young, you're nuts anyway.

I lived in Chicago for a while. I remember winters getting brutally cold. I lived by Wrigley - walked to the red line and remember turning the corner on Clark to walk down Addison to El. Man, that wind whipping down the street like it was coming out of a tunnel from the lake - and then having to wait on the platform…Brrrr… But, some of the snowfalls in the city when no wind at night were pretty cool.

 

[originalnutcracker]

It warmed up to a balmy 28 below here today.
here is a photo of the sundogs we've had for a few days - they show up when the sun reflects off ice crystals in the air - usually around 30 below or so.....

 

[Derby]

It got so cold in parts of Minnesota this winter that if you were outside and said something your words just froze in the air and dropped to the ground. When they thaw out in the Spring it’s like the Tower of Babel. ?

 

[warren]

By and large, the upper mid-West of the US is a lot more miserable a place in winter than my part of Alaska. Those barbed wire fences in Saskatchewan do little to slow the those Siberian zephyrs coming over the Pole.

Up north folks in the small towns stay home in weather which isn't much worse than Chicago with the wind and "lake effect." Nope, balmy Southcentral Alaska is an Eden compared to a lot of the US mid-West.