Watch what happens when a squirt gun hits the air at -42ºF

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“For all of you so enthusiastically displaying your incredible lack of understanding of the impact of global warming on weather patterns, let me explain it in a way you would understand:
Think of global warming as a bad marriage. As the marriage grows worse over time, the arguments get more intense and more frequent….but just because you have a day without an argument, it doesn’t mean your marriage is fixed.
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So thermodynamics works just like a bad marriage? Wow…impressive. Seriously…impressive.

Frank K. says: @ur momisugly January 5, 2014 at 4:21 am
We got down to around -20 F here in western New Hampshire…
I can remember -30F in Rockingham NH. My little diesel truck had to jump start all my neighbors cars. (Nice to have an engine block heater you can plug in)

I’ve been to South Porcupine in the winter and to nearby Timmins several times over the years. Back in the 1990s it got so cold (some days -50 C without wind chill) that they’d stop the school buses from running. You plug in your truck engine heater and your truck would start but the transmission would be frozen. To which was heard the following conversation.
person 1: Did you hear it’s -50 deg C in Timmins this morning?
person 2: Timmins? There is nothing from Timmins except whores and hockey players.
person 1: Hey my Aunt was from Timmins.
person 2: Oh yeah? Which team did she play on?
But on a weather note, I live 8 hours south of South Porcupine and it was -26 deg C two days ago. That’s the coldest it’s been in 10 years at least. About 7 years ago it was +4 same time of year. We didn’t have any snow until Jan-14 and my pond barely froze that year. This year I had 4″ of ice on the pond before Christmas. I know because I had to break through the ice and get grey-water for the house when we lost electricity in the ice storm. People around here were without electricity for 6 days. Temperatures at my place are exaggerated versus global temperatures but there does seem to be a general correlation. I miss global warming.

Re: hot water freezes faster than cold
Actually, it’s more complicated than that. Your math and engineering majors here may remember taking a class on differential equations …
The rate of temperature change in water is a function of the temperature differential between that water and its environment. It follows that the boiling water will cool faster than cold water will, but the boiling water is many degrees hotter i.e. has more cooling to do before hitting freezing.
Therefore, it’s only when the temperature [differential] is very large that hot water will actually freeze faster than cold water, and it kinda depends on what you consider to be “cold.”
Source: got a “B” in differential equations in 1993.

Loved the video of the watergun! I am going to share that with my friends and family. They will get a kick out of it and since we all here in the Northeast know and usually love this weather (or we’d obviously move) We try to adapt to certain conditions when severe weather strikes. Its become a “do what you got to do” situation in times like these and as sad as it is – people will always complain knowing the outcome will remain the same – There is no winning the fight against Good Ol’ Mother Nature. It most certainly doesn’t mean we have to enjoy losing our big and pinky toes while out shoveling the 40 ft of snow that got dumped on us within two days – one storm after another. BUT, In all fairness if we prepared bettered – it might make it a tad better on our parts to get through it. Afterall, we do (those of who live in the states where this kind of weather is expected) know and normally are use to getting this extreme/severe weather at least once or twice during the winter season. With that said, This year it came earlier, it hit us with a vengeance and it seems for the time being there is no end in sight of it letting up any time soon – so, we can either complain about it OR find ways to enjoy the days when the sun is shining brightly and staying warm on the cruddy, crappy days. Most importantly (and I cannot stress this enough) We need to ban together, check on our elderly neighbors, who may or may not be alone – make sure they are taken care of – don’t need anything (a lot of them don’t want to impose on anyone or be a bother) and in this day in age – I don’t know about yours..but, my kids are always bored – so, give them a shovel, bundle them up and send them out to shovel off their stairs, or their walkway etc. Or just to walk over and say hello to them…give them some company. Everyone gets a little depressed during the winter season – because the lack of light – so take that into consideration. Also — PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE remember to check on your pets !! If it is too cold for you – it is WAYY too cold for them. I have had to buy puppy pads for my pup – we have a dog run out back of our house and she cannot even get a minute off the steps before her feet are frozen and one of us has to go get her – leaving her unable to go potty at all. The weather completely cripples SMALL dogs..and The same Ive been hearing about larger breeds. We need to remember, that they have NO VOICE…they cannot speak and tell you – So, listen for them. The same goes for rabbits that normally live “outside” It is too cold this year – Even if they have hay – They need to be brought inside. Outside cats – Need to be inside. No matter how mad they get at you – Keep them in – Until we get a break in the cold weather – I know here in Maine – the weather is so crazy – yesterday it was -17 and today WAS SUPPOSE to be 30 above – it is again – -2 but, feels like -18 with the wind. Tomorrow could be Sunny and in the 40’s and everything melting and people walking around in sweatshirts..Those are the days where its ok to let the animals play outside and get some fresh air..Most of them will come in when they are ready – Then theres the obvious that are caged and you have to be responsible pet owners and figure it out for them.
Sorry to take up your time – with this – But, as your post is about the weather – Our weather here in Maine – always does the “input” on Checking on your pets and the elderly. So, I thought maybe It would be ok.
Thank you for your blog..I love it – And, hope you warm up soon!! Look forward to reading more soon!!
Darcy from Maine!!

Back in the day had a buddy in the cattle operation world, he got the bright idea of leaseing one of the big ranches in Montana that Mobil Oil had bought for the lignite coal.
The Montana cowboys taught us bad boy Texan easy weather types all about taking a wizz off the second story of the local bar at closing time. ” Human Hail Stones” .
Two winters of helping him was all my good nature could do.

Ah ha ….looks like chemtrails to me…….sarc off

“And meanwhile in the UK we are still suffering from a relentless string of storms, floods and mild weather. Probably the worst winter for storms in living memory.”
The cold that is happening in Canada will soon come to Europe,UK and the rest of US. Januaray and February will be cold months .Northern Asia is already freezing as well and all this cold weather will shortly affect most of Northern Hemisphere. I have been writing about this since 2009. We will have colder winters for many decades to come . Not every year but the long term trend will be to colder winters .As the moderating effect of the oceans drops because they are entering their 30-35 year cold phase, [ like 1880-1910 and again 1945-1975] due to changes in deep ocean currents ,the land areas will get colder quite quickly. That is why we are seeing the extra cold in the middle of Canada [ hiiting temperatures now -50C today with wind chill] . The Northern Hemisphere winters have been cooling since 1998 and so have the winters of most areas like US, Canada, Europe, and UK.
The extra cold of the winter is begining to cool the spring season also as we have seen in United States . In Canada the fall season is also cooling . Canadian Arctic has cooled 5 degrees C since 2010.

This last cold outbreak all we got was about 6″ of snow (not lake effect, however).
This time we’re under the gun with a lake effect snow warning for up to 2′ of snow from Monday night thru all of Tuesday into Wednesday morning followed by a couple days of cold with high temps of approx 5°F (-15°C).
Looking for the bright side of it: I guess that means I can skip the workouts for a couple days as I’ll be getting all the exercise I need shoveling snow several times a day for a couple days. And, as an added benefit, the more I exercise, the lower my blood pressure; much more effective than those stupid pills.