Boiling water freezes instantly in Siberia's -41C

[MrsJrotax101]

note: -41c = -41.8f



A pot of boiling water thrown from a balcony instantly turns into frozen droplets in Siberia's minus 41C weather.

A Novosibirsk resident demonstrated the depths of the cold in his city by pouring a pot of boiling water into the air from one of the top floors of his apartment building, and watched it instantly turn into a cloud of frozen droplets.

The unidentified man showed a temperature reading of minus 41 degrees Celsius on his mobile phone before launching the water out the window.

The footage has emerged as severe frost affects large parts of Russia. In the far eastern regions of the country temperatures have fallen to minus 50 degrees Celsius, with minus 20 degrees Celsius recorded in central parts.

Meteorologists say that for some regions such low temperatures have not been recorded for more than half a century.

Article from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-water-freezes-instantly-in-Siberias-41C.html

 

[Monk]

Good thing, or it could have burnt someone........

 

[MrsJrotax101]

 

[Nomar06]

brrrr....

 

[Varoga]

Glad I'm not in Siberia... Yikes!

 

[rain91]

makes me wonder how much of their population would need to jump start their cars everytime they start it, or even buy a new battery

 

[Varoga]

At that temperature, would the "Winter Package" option even help? I'm guessing.... Nope!

 

[Dragos]

makes me wonder how much of their population would need to jump start their cars everytime they start it, or even buy a new battery

Some people never turn the engines off for the winter, but that's for trucks and businesses that can afford it. Regular joes keep it in a heated garage which they do not have being regular joes or just don't drive for the period.

Saw a nice doc about a Siberian village on BBC I think where they mentioned the same thing. Trucks and ambulances and the like never turn off the engines for the winter else they will freeze and not start until the spring. Wondered how they service them but I guess they must take them inside a heated garage for that.

The city is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakon

 

[webby]

let it snow

 

[KennyGS]

I wonder what would happen to a liquid ("thrown" from the balcony) that is at a slightly lower temperature than boiling... like 37C.

 

[Dar-Dar]

A falling icicle of death!

 

[Dragos]

I get cold only from watching The steam is frozen humidity.

 

[Dragos]

Found this bit very interesting in some article about Yakutia:

"In fact, if the temperature dips below –58C, when you exhale you can hear a little “tinkle” as your breath freezes. This is known as the “whisper of stars”"