!!!! (redux)

[plonq]

This will be my last OMGWTF!11! post about the weather since it's supposed to "warm up" for the weekend.  Today was scheduled to be warmer than yesterday, but we woke up to -41F with a wind making it feel like -65.  We didn't even bother trying to start atara's car today - we just moved the pass cards and extension cord over to the Plonqmobile and took my car to work.



Conditions are interesting this morning.  The ice fog of yesterday is twice as thick today, limiting visibility to about 2 1/2 blocks.  It's starting to settle out on the trees and buildings, coating the whole city in a hoar frost.

In case you missed it, atara posted a couple of videos to her LJ of a video we made last night (sorry about the poor quality and lighting) where we tossed some boiling water into the air and it froze before it could hit the ground.  You can't hear it in the crappy video, but it made a nice "WHUFF" sound as it literally exploded into an ice fog.

Comments

Tell me more about the whore frost =)

[farlo.livejournal.com]

Ya know, the community next door is now confiscating the cars of "customers". Plus, the locla police dress up fermale officvers ... oh crap, I feel anothe post in my own journal coming on.

[skorzy.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately there's no OSX codec for the Indeo 5 codec and I couldn't view those AVI files on my computer. The ONE codec that Quicktime in OSX can't handle!

You should also do some Newtonian physics experiments and compare how fast a cup of near-boiling water and a cup of refrigerated water, in the same size and type of cup will freeze. :)

[ramalion.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty cool video. :)

But look now...it's a balmy -26. Almost time to break out the shorts again. :)

[fuzzytoedcollie.livejournal.com]

Hey, the nice thing about -40 is it doesn't matter whether it's degrees F or degrees C, 'cause it's all one and the same :)

Aren't you so much happier now knowing that?

*grins and ships you some +49F weather and sunshine we had today*

[orleans.livejournal.com]

By warming up, I guess you mean -20! :D I feel your pain ... sometimes I miss Manitoba, but in mid-winter I am silently glad I don't live there anymore.