In case you haven’t noticed, it is as cold in Canada (and soon some parts of the USA) as it gets at the South Pole at times:
The video author writes:
Woke up to a balmy -41C (-41.8°F) this morning in South Porcupine, ON. Thought I’d share what happens when you mix boiling water and a water gun and take it outside for a few shots.
Watch:
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Doug Huffman says:
January 5, 2014 at 7:17 am
> Believe nothing read or heard without verifying it yourself unless it is Weltanschauung congruent.
I went off to figure out what “Weltanschauung congruent” and gave up when I got to http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/09/14/half-baked-ideas-facts-wikipedia/#comment-7302
beaut1ful*m1nd says: @ur momisugly January 5, 2014 at 6:40 am
…. – so, we can either complain about it OR find ways to enjoy the days when the sun is shining brightly….
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Like cross country skiing right out the front door. A favorite sport of mine before I wised up and moved to just below the snow-line in NC.
If you are going to live in the frozen north a wood stove for heat and to cook on when the power goes out (at the worst possible moment) is always a good idea. I really miss my wood stove for slow cooking.
Tenuc says:
January 5, 2014 at 6:23 am
Tenuc, that was a terrific article. Very carefully written, excellent historical review (including Aristotle, Descarte, Bacon, etc. up to Ann Landers) and a clear understanding that the effect remains incompletely studied in all its permutations and ramifications for the last 2000+ years. Some useful meditations on the scientific method, Kuhnian paradigms and unwillingness to investigate phenomena outside the current paradigm (applicable to the climate change debate (both (or all) sides))….
Thanks for the ref.
We are in an Arctic low which allows polar jet stream wanderings to escape the confines of the circle and invade our lands in more southerly directions with polar-frozen air temperatures. It also means that elsewhere in that loopy circle there will be warm invasions into northerly directions (that’s what loops do you know) with tropical-warmed air temperatures. It has nothing to do with warmed arctic temperatures. It has everything to do with the strength or weakness of polar pressure systems being tightly bound at the outer edge, or loosely bound and loopy at the outer edge.(as well as the height then in the middle of those circular systems).
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/ao.sprd2.gif
Climate scientist and bloggers are often clueless about pressure systems. Meteorologists have the scoop on these kinds of weather patterns, which can occur both in short term “weather” data, as well as longer term “weather pattern” variation trend data. When the Arctic Oscillation hovers around the low end of its pressure, we get lots of snow and storms in Canada and elsewhere when the loops come over continental areas. So what happens if the pattern stays around for a long period of time?
I am going out on a limb to suggest that invasions of Arctic air and snowy storms (IE negative Arctic Oscillation pressure) may have caused or significantly contributed to the development of Lake Missoula. And then when the pattern reversed to a more positive trend (IE positive Arctic Oscillation pressure), the ice dam area warmed up and we ended up with catastrophic floods.
http://www.nps.gov/iceagefloods/d.htm
Leon Brozyna says: @ur momisugly January 5, 2014 at 7:28 am
….the more I exercise, the lower my blood pressure; much more effective than those stupid pills.
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Try getting off the salt and sugar/starches/carbohydrates. Worked very well for me, might work for you.
I was amused that I and many others consider “low Carb” as under 30 grams of carbs a day (you can smell a chocolate bar) yet the studies I looked at call under 300 grams a day “Low Carb” and then can not find any evidence of benefits. Seems CAGW is not the only place science gets a bit err “interesting”
…, the free-living subjects were randomly assigned to either a high- (75 GI units) or low- (43 GI units) GI diet (1440 kcal/day, 60% carbohydrate, 5% SFA) for eight weeks… A diet of 60% carbs is low?!?
re: that emergency trip to the hospital
Becoming dehydrated in winter-dry air probably occurs more frequently than becoming dehydrated in summer. So drink up friends.
Herkimer, although we have had a mild winter in the UK so far, all the forecasts are for very cold (for UK anyway) weather in the next few weeks. Last year here in NE England we had snow for almost every day in March, we have had 6 foot icicles hanging off the gutters. The last few winters have definitely been colder, not this one, but there is still time.
We are flying to Las Vegas on Saturday going on to LA San Francisco and then Hawaii and have no idea what clothes to pack. Any ideas anyone please?
I meant to say “We are in a negative Arctic Oscillation period…” An Arctic low is more properly thought of as a local Arctic weather pattern pressure system storm.
Ric Werme says: January 5, 2014 at 7:52 am “I went off to figure out what “Weltanschauung congruent” and gave up when I got to http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/09/14/half-baked-ideas-facts-wikipedia/#comment-7302”
Oh my! Thank you. Weltanschauung is German and philosophical technical talk for world-view, to separate the unlettered critics from significant criticisms. The discussion that Ric links from Wikipedia talk is of Popperian Type 1 facts, Napoleon died on St. Helena, differentiated from Type 2 facts, the statement that “Napoleon died on St. Helena.”
It’s 10c in Wales today. Another storm due tonight and the next one being prepared off the east coast of the USA. While no particular weather event can be correlated to climate change, I do recall being warned that climate change would bring more frequent severe weather, whether that be cold, warm or windy. And that is what seems to be happening across the globe. The cold weather in the US is unusual, as are the storms in the UK, each single event can be rationalised away, but in totality it’s getting harder and harder to say there is nothing going on.
Logically speaking, if storms are driven by the temperature differential between air and ocean (with the ocean being the warmer of the two), and ocean temperatures lag behind air temperatures in decade long temperature cycles, then it would be reasonable to expect increased storm activity when global temperatures are going down, and decreased storm activity when global temperatures are going up.
Some Guy says:
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.
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Right. And when the hotter water cools to the same temperature as the cooler water was, the delta-T is the same and therefore the rate of cooling is the same from then on. Water doesn’t “remember” that it was previously hotter than it is. Unless I suppose one believes in homeopathy where water has a good memory for things. It is always possible something else changed in the environment around the boiling water that changes the heat transfer coefficient.
This is simply Newton’s Law of Cooling.
Source: a “B” in DE in 83.
I’ve also heard the opposite: that hot water boils slower than cold water. Always assumed both of these belong to the category of old wives tales.
Stop it!
Ric Werme says: January 5, 2014 at 5:13 am
“…the latest claim to explain the phenomenon. Perhaps you can check out the paper it links to, http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6514…
O:H-O Bond Anomalous Relaxation Resolving Mpemba Paradox
“…the O:H nonbond in water follows actively the general rule of thermal expansion and drives the H-O covalent bond to relax oppositely in length and energy because of the inter-electron-electron pair coupling [J Phys Chem Lett 4, 2565 (2013); ibid 4, 3238 (2013)]. Heating stores energy into the H-O bond by shortening and stiffening it. Cooling the water as the source in a refrigerator as a drain, the H-O bond releases its energy at a rate that depends exponentially on the initially storage of energy, and therefore, Mpemba effect happens…”
Thanks for the link to the paper, Ric. I think they are clutching at straws with this explanation – a common problem with lots of ideas on the topic, as scientists struggle to come to terms with this problem. Perhaps a re-think of the basics could help?
http://distractify.com/culture/arts/frozen-bubbles-in-wintertime/
Humm -36C right now in Red Deer Alberta time to go shovel the 8″ of CAGW off the driveway :>(
Going to perform this experiment this afternoon/tonight outside since temps are headed to ‘freezer’ temps … will let you know how this turns out …
My bet: It’s bogus …
Don’t want to be a snitch, but all I see is thick steam that turns into micro ice crystals.. there is no snow real ice/snow things comming out of the gun.. the droplets hit the surface as liquid. It’s an old trick of using warm water to bedazzle people.
Gail Combs says:
January 5, 2014 at 8:09 am
Try getting off the salt and sugar/starches/carbohydrates. Worked very well for me, might work for you.
Not bad boilerplate advice; however, the thing I most need to get off is my ass. I’ve already reined in the sodium from well over 3000 mg daily average to approx 2200 mg. (I do miss those processed meals – they’re so convenient) (Latest study for CDC found the touted 1500 mg sodium diet to be overrated, though I still try to keep it down as low as possible to allow me an occasional surge from a DiGiorno pizza). The biggest source of sugar (several cans of Coke daily) is also under control, though it’s not yet to the desired level of a couple cans/week. My biggest problem is spending too much time sitting at the computer. Once I get activity levels up on a regular basis (so that it’s routine – like doing a quick 25 mile trip on the bike and feeling like I was cheating by making it such a short trip) I’ll look at other risk factors again. (I’ve even swapped out occasional trips to my beloved Wendy’s for healthier trips to Subway).
All in all, I’m doing much, much better than last year when a rush visit to the VA ER got me a 10 day stay for congestive heart failure. Doing so well now that plans for a triple bypass have been shelved.
Every Siberian knows that a sprayed hot water freezes in a dry, cold air faster than cold water, simply because much of a hot water vaporizes almost immediately, and it is the vapor (spatter) that freezes, while colder water comes out in a denser spurt, which continues on its way as liquid longer than vapor. No mystery here, methinks.
Gareth Phillips says: @ur momisugly January 5, 2014 at 8:19 am
….. but in totality it’s getting harder and harder to say there is nothing going on.
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#1. A warmer world has less storms because the difference in temperature between the tropics and the poles is less. (temp changes occur more at the poles for this reason. )
#2. There has been a change in weather patterns because of a shift in teh jet stream. The jet stream has gone from zonal (mild weather) to ‘loopy’ or meridional, causing oscillation between warm and cold weather. link and link
The current weather patterns result from the more meridional path of the jet stream on a cooling world as the temperature gradient from tropics to poles steepens. Very cold air pushes further south while across the frontal boundaries warm more moist air pushes north with the resulting extreme temperature gradients across the boundaries. See the three year update of my Thirty Year climate forecast at
http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com/2013/07/skillful-so-far-thirty-year-climate.html
Weather is much more variable on a cooling world – very cold blocking highs in winter -hot blocking highs in summer. – generally more drought. – fewer strong tropical hurricanes. Fewer El Ninos – more La Ninas. Strong winds and gales across the steeper temperature and pressure gradients. Trouble for agricultural production.
A warming world is more humid and there is more energy for powerful tropical hurricanes. More El Ninos than La Ninas. Generally Much better for world food production.
The patterns of the last several years are clearly indicative of a cooling trend.
Here is an interesting experiment to freeze water.
Can someone please explain it? Thanx.
RE: The Super-Soaker video.
Here’s the Icelandic version.
dbstealey says: @ur momisugly January 5, 2014 at 8:29 am
Stop it!
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I guess they did. ROTFLMAO.