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It's pretty cold

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GIF
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It's -5 degrees here in Denver and because Colorado has such dry air you can make instant snow with boiling water!

Dec 5 2013 10:21PM
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GIF
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A lot of it came down as ice
Dec 5 2013 10:23PM
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SnowMiser
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that's fly as fuckkk
Dec 5 2013 10:24PM
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Spagett+
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Kids these days!!
Dec 5 2013 10:25PM
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-WZ-
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OMG i have to try that its -10 here
Dec 5 2013 10:28PM
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GaryColeman
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I want to try that! oh wait, its 50 degrees here....
Dec 5 2013 10:31PM
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FigNewton
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It was 0 when I was doing urban tonight
Dec 5 2013 10:32PM
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squashmosh
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A lot of it came down as hot water
Dec 5 2013 10:32PM
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SFB
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WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dec 5 2013 10:33PM
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Backyard.Skier
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too humid on the west coast but thats dope
Dec 5 2013 10:33PM
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stupendous-man
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It'll probably get that cold here tonight, but I'm staying in bed.
Dec 5 2013 10:33PM
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RICK_ROSS
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ive seen a video of this before. im going out and trying it right now. vid to come
Dec 5 2013 10:33PM
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GIF
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Nope, you could hear it cracking as it formed crystals in the air
Dec 5 2013 10:34PM
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No.Quarter
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I just went out and tried this and i found
a) getting boiling water splashed on your hands is a strange sensation when it is -5 out
b) using a smaller amount of water I was able to get 100% steam

Yeah! Science Bitch!
Dec 5 2013 10:51PM
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squashmosh
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Dec 5 2013 10:54PM
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GIF
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You just don't want it to be true
Dec 5 2013 10:57PM
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RICK_ROSS
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Dec 5 2013 10:59PM
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-WZ-
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boiling water as we speak. if it doesnt work im gunna be really mad at you OP
Dec 5 2013 11:05PM
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Parrish
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-14F here. "-30" with the windchill. And we're not even that far north, I think much of the northern "midwest" is cold as fuck right now because of the huge continental polar air mass is lingering down here from up north.
Dec 5 2013 11:08PM
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MustBeMattyB
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Dec 5 2013 11:09PM
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chacha33
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I remember I tried this a few years ago but it was too windy when I threw it and I got a boiling pot of water to the face
Dec 5 2013 11:12PM
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Parks.
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Science Bitch
Dec 5 2013 11:14PM
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JAHpow
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I've done that before, so cool!
Dec 5 2013 11:15PM
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squashmosh
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Haha, no I can tell something is happening, but I just think from the videos it's exaggerating it to say "it makes instant snow"…but I'm not physically there seeing it so I'll have to try it when it gets real cold here.
Dec 5 2013 11:28PM
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Dustin.
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It's gonna freeze the next few nights in Phoenix, so I can imagine it's pretty fucking cold back home in Colorado.
Dec 5 2013 11:47PM
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Parrish
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Can confirm it works.
Dec 5 2013 11:48PM
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-WZ-
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FUCK
it didnt work.
Dec 5 2013 11:52PM
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No.Quarter
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if someone makes a video with boiling water spraying out of one of these I will love them forever
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Dec 5 2013 11:56PM
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louie.mirags
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real cold and dry. The Dry part has a lot to do with it
Dec 5 2013 11:57PM
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GayWolf420
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it was a nice -17 when I got in my car this morning. didin't reach above 10 degrees at all today.
Dec 6 2013 12:57AM
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eheath
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Yeah because you live in BC, i bet the humidity is at least 50% there right now, you seemed to miss that part in OPs post
Dec 6 2013 1:05AM
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caucasian_chad
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Welcome to the entire month of January in Minnesota.
Dec 6 2013 1:28AM
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Darth.Maul
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Just did this. I live in Utah so we're plenty dry here. The windchill puts the temp at around -2 F right now. I'd say 90% of the water froze and turned into a fog/snow before it hit the ground. There were a few splatters but most of the water that hit the ground was solid.

I'd post pics but its 11:30 and dark and I dont want to go get my camera to take a picture of dark concrete that has ice on it...
Dec 6 2013 1:34AM
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could be some great new way to make snow
Dec 6 2013 12:35PM
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Mr.LemonPie
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That is how Breck is doing it in Freeway right now. They just have a giant tub of boiling water and the park crew is running around with those things blowing insta snow everywhere one thousandth of an inch at a time.
Dec 6 2013 1:17PM
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C-Burg
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It is -25 where I am and I tried it with hot coffee and it does the same thing.
Dec 6 2013 5:21PM
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Chunter
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probably because you filmed vertically.
Dec 6 2013 10:43PM
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whoa-dere
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why does it have to be boiling water?
Dec 6 2013 10:53PM
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DrZoidberg
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Probably because it's closer to vaporization. Then it can get cold, re-condense as snow and blow our minds?
Dec 7 2013 1:38AM
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yourthemannowdog
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That isn't too cold for Colorado. In Pagosa last December it was -25 every morning for two weeks. In gunny it gets to -35 consistently.

-5 is naked weather
Dec 7 2013 1:54PM
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howlongcanausern
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another wonder God's creation.....:

When it's cold outside, there's hardly any water vapor present in the air, whereas boiling water emits vapor very readily that's why it's steaming," Seeley says. "When you throw the water up in the air, it breaks into much smaller droplets, so there's even more surface for water vapor to come off of.

"Now, cold air is very dense, and this makes its capacity to hold water vapor molecules very low. There's just fundamentally less space for the vapor molecules," Seeley explains. "So when you throw the boiling water up, suddenly the minus 22 air has more water vapor than it has room for. So the vapor precipitates out by clinging to microscopic particles in the air, such as sodium or calcium, and forming crystals. This is just what goes into the formation of snowflakes.
Dec 7 2013 1:59PM
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DaffyDaDak
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-5 isnt cold. its -43 here
Dec 7 2013 2:11PM
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cannaguts666
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Dec 7 2013 2:51PM
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Bombogenesis
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I was gonna ask C of F, but then I remembered that that's about the temperature where it doesn't even matter lol
Dec 7 2013 3:28PM
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Darth.Maul
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At that point I think "fucking cold" sums it up nicely.
Dec 7 2013 6:22PM
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Bart.Man
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Could coffee snow be the future?! Two of my favorite things combined!!!!
Dec 7 2013 6:31PM
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freestyler540
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It was an icy cold -25C today for opening weekend. Funny not too many people showed up
Dec 7 2013 6:33PM
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corona
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uhm. where in Canada are you? Coldest it's been in Calgary this year was -29.3 C

pet peeve when people exaggerate temperature.


and wind chill doesn't count.
Dec 7 2013 7:13PM
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Spinoza
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fo real. i taught in -35 today get on my level children
Dec 7 2013 8:08PM
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