In case you’re worried, we’re back to normal temperatures this week, so it’s safe to get back out on the snowshoes and enjoy the outdoors. It was cold enough that your breath and even your runny nose would freeze, especially for a bearded guy like me. And thanks to Mark Finlay for exposing his fingers long enough to take the pictures and the video.īoiling water wasn’t the only thing to freeze last week. Thanks to Mistaya Lodge (a great place to go backcountry skiing!) for a few thermoses of boiling water and the great sunrise venue for the experiment. From emptying the thermos to the ice cloud disappearing takes about ten seconds! Once that happens, you get an ice cloud that is, literally, very cool!Ĭheck out this video of the whole thing in action.
But each bit of “condensate” is still really small, and in the cold, all those little bits quickly freeze. Each teensy hot droplet is trying to turn into steam.īut the air is really cold, and cold air simply can’t hold very much water vapour, so the freshly made steam condenses back into a liquid. The droplets now have a large surface area compared to their size, which allows for a lot of evaporation. Instead, it appears to turn into an instant cloud of frozen steam.īoiling water, being so close to steam, is very energetic, so when you throw it out of the thermos, it splits or breaks into tiny droplets. Amazingly, none of it makes it to the ground as liquid water. The water is not 'freezing in mid air' as these videos so often describe. People often describe this as being so cold that boiling water freezes instantly. This video went viral worldwide, a few years. Whenever there's really cold weather you see lots of accounts of people throwing hot water into the air, which creates a dramatic cloud. You fill a thermos with boiling water, and then, making sure you’re not facing the wind, you throw the hot water into the cold. you will see boiling water thrown from a cup, in the air, and freezing immediately, coming down as ice crystals. That’s not so fun for skiing and snowshoeing, but it’s perfect for trying a neat winter experiment – turning boiling hot water into frozen steam in just a couple of seconds. See the video (below) of a woman having quite a good time at a temperature of -30 ☌.Last week, Arctic air parked itself over the Rockies, and on many mornings, temperatures were as cold as -35 C. This is such an unbelievable phenomenon, however, that people go outside in these freezing temperatures, stand in the snow, and throw water to make even more snow! What can I say! Humans can be very difficult creatures to understand. In other words, if these conditions are not satisfied, you may end up hurting yourself or others with the boiling water. The above phenomenon would not work if the water temperature is less than 100 ☌ (212 ° F) or if the outside temperature is not cold enough (outside the range of -20 ° to -30 ☌, or below 0☏). However, be careful when trying out this cool-looking phenomenon, and don’t throw the hot water straight up or onto other people. When boiled water is thrown into air at such a cold temperature, it instantly turns into snow and simply drifts away. Two conditions to be precise, and if they’re both present, then you should be able to create snow from boiling water:ġ) Water should be boiled at 100 ° C (or 212 ° F)Ģ) The outside temperature should be very cold, in the range of (-20 ° to -30 ☌ or below 0☏) Wow… that is awfully cold! There are certain conditions that need to be fulfilled in order to create snow from boiling water. Not exactly. This transformation doesn’t really work that way. It’s pretty hard to believe.īut wait a minute! Can you do this anytime and anywhere when it’s freezing cold outside? However, have you every wondered why water at its boiling temperature can miraculously convert into snow in the blink of an eye?Įxactly… I had the same reaction. These videos go viral every winter when some bored soul sitting in the confines of a heated room gets the crazy idea of recording this bizarre experiment and sharing it on social media. Have you ever seen this happen before? In recent years, this has become all the rage to videotape, particularly in regions that aren’t used to such extreme temperatures. It’s freezing cold outside and you decide to take a cup of boiling water outside and throw it into the air. Instead of falling to the ground and searing a hole in the already-fallen snow… Boom! It magically turns into snow! The cloud looks like snow, but it’s actually just water vapor. When it’s freezing cold outside and you throw a cup of boiling water into the air, the water droplets rapidly evaporate into vapor that immediately condenses into a cloud. Ice-pectacular Amazing moment hot water immediately FREEZES after being thrown out into the air on a -44C day.
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