News flew in on New Year’s eve that it’s going to be a chilly New Year’s Day and in many parts of the world, it indeed was. Like, here in India, Northerners were shivering with cold with areas having sub-zero temperatures. (Mummaaa!)
In Canada, it was (and, is) colder. And the negative temperatures make everything turn to ice and things too icy. It was effin’ -29°C. And, amid that there’s a YouTuber, taking the ‘coolness’ quotient of a science experiment high by turning boiling water into a snow cloud.
Woah.
Science nerds have already figured it out what it is called. Amirite? For the uninitiated souls, this is called the Mpemba Effect, which is basically the phenomenon, where “hot water freezes faster than cold” hence turning into snow mid-air.
Like, when you throw hot, boiling water in really cold temperatures, the result is a snow cloud. Just like this guy, Viva Frei did at Quebec, Canada.
Holy snow! How cool was that?!
Anyhoo! People took to Twitter to share their videos of the Mpemba effect and it’s superCOOL!
1. Ohmigod. It’s so beautiful.
First Mpemba effect of 2018! Coventry, CT @JimCantore @RachelFrank_CT @ryanhanrahan @WeatherCT @weatherchannel @gilsimmons @CNNweather @breakingweather https://t.co/UHqO7PQ2Ql pic.twitter.com/rvN1X93LP6
— Micah4CTGovernor (@MWelintukonis) January 1, 2018
2. Can’t even imagine -30°C.
Throwing water at minus 30
❄️ ❄️ ❄️
— Hadrian’s Gate (@Hadrians_Gate) December 30, 2017
3. Now that’s how you ring in 2018!
Boiling Water and Minus 37C Melville, Sk. Canada #mpemba #mpembaeffect pic.twitter.com/ilDwAEE9xL
— Tracy Kerestesh (@Iammylover) December 30, 2017
4. Oh, she even uploaded pictures.
Throwing Boiling Water in Minus 35C #mpemba #mpembaeffect pic.twitter.com/6wyiSCW69u
— Tracy Kerestesh (@Iammylover) December 30, 2017
5. This is simply AWESOME!
We could watch this for hours. Watch as boiling water turns instantly into #snow in Ramsey, #MN. Be careful if you try this at home, but take a video and tag us if you do! pic.twitter.com/au8XFMYRDS
— AMHQ (@AMHQ) December 27, 2017
I mean, I’ll be thrilled to experience this in real-life. *the hypothermic in me nods in disagreement*
*shivering*