Fun in the Cold
Everyday
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In the winter in the far north, the temperatures can get real low! This was the coldest temperature during the winter of '03-'04. The extreme cold allowed me to have a little fun and also caused a few problems. |
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Here, i blew a few bubbles
with some soapy water. The water around the bubble froze, preserving
the bubbles until they melted.
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| Here is a picture of someone throwing boiling water in the air. When the temperature gets lower than -40F, the air looses it's capacity to hold and water vapor, so all the water that would evaporate forms a cloud and turns to show. It makes a wierd "swooh" sound too! | |
| picture by Paul Ward |
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| Here is a picture of Fairbanks, Alaska o that cold winter morig. The city is shrouded in 'Ice Fog'. This is also a result of the air being too cold to hold any vapor, so all the water in the air turns into a frozed fog that blankets everything in a white frost. | |
| Picture from Fairbanks Daily News Miner |
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On the morning that the
temperature reached -54F, i decided to get up early and go into
town to get a picture of a sign so all my friends would beleave
me when i told them how cold it had been, when i started to move
in the car, however, i noticed that the tired felt wierd as i drove.
When the air in the tires is supercooled, he presure drops and the
tires arreap to deflate, causing the bottoms to become flattened
against the ground. The rubber in the tires then freezed, preserving
the flattened bottoms. It was a very bumpy ride for the first 30
seconds or so util the flat spot was gone.
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Picture from www.scamptrailers.com |
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Another unexpected effect
of the extreme cold was that our propane stopped working. The cold
temperatures stopped the liquid propane from turning into a gas,
therefor not allowing our stove to work. Warming blankets were needed
to warm the tanks just enough to allow us to cook dinner and keep
this from happening again.
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