I'm always a little surprised but admittedly entertained by weather announcers who stand outside in hurricane force winds and chase tornadoes while warning us to stay inside. Today they were playing with the cold. While warning of the dangers of frostbite at minus 40 wind chill they proceeded to stand around outside demonstrating how cold it really was. Did you know that if you hang a wet t-shirt outside in sub-zero weather it will freeze into a flat solid board? I think some of our pioneer grandmothers wouldn't have been at all surprised. They had to hang out laundry in all kinds of weather.
If you fling a cup of hot water into the air it will freeze into a cloud of ice particles. Ice cubes will freeze in an ice cube tray faster than in your freezer. But my favorite was the egg demonstration. Sometimes, on hot summer days, someone will fry an egg on a sidewalk. Today a weatherman cracked an egg into a frying pan which had been sitting out side for an hour. The egg instantly froze in the pan, but with the same shape and color as if it had been fried. I especially liked that the weatherman warned us that if we tried this at home (which of course we shouldn't because we shouldn't go outside) we shouldn't eat the egg because it's not really cooked. Really???
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