#Frozen bubble pop series

But in extremely cold temperatures, water vapor freezes instantly and creates ice fog. winters, the air is warm enough over many major lakes that when water evaporates, you can't view the droplets without a microscope. Frozen Clouds Over Lakesĭuring typical U.S. The hot water in the water gun hits the cold air and instantly condenses into ice crystals. This explanation also applies to a 2014 viral video of a man in Ontario shooting steam from a water gun outside at -41☌ (-41.8☏). Extremely cold temperatures quickly freeze the water droplets, which fall as ice crystals. But since cold air can't hold as much water vapor as warmer air, the water condenses. 'When you throw into the air, the hot water forms into hot droplets,' says Uttal.īecause they're so hot, those tiny water droplets start to vaporize. That energy moves the molecules farther away from each other until the water vaporizes into a gaseous state. When you boil water, you're adding energy to water in its liquid state. This is known as the triple point, and temperatures need to reach 0.01☌ (32.018☏) for it to happen, Uttal explains. 'Water is a special substance,' says Taneil Uttal, an arctic climatologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), because it can exist as a liquid, a gas and a solid at the same time. Here's the science behind viral cold-weather videos: Boiling Water Turns to Snow Cold Snap: What Do Bitter Temperatures Do to the Human Body?')

#Frozen bubble pop series

Thanks to a series of weather patterns, including a notorious bomb cyclone, Florida's capital got its first snowfall in three decades Much of New England, meanwhile, is bracing for a snowy hit from the bomb cyclone (also known as bombogenesis). Videos of such strikingly weird phenomena in Minnesota, Vermont, New Jersey, and elsewhere are making the rounds as subzero temperatures, high winds, and snow blasts across the country. It's so cold in parts of the United States that a cup of boiling water tossed into the air can crystalize into ice and snow before it hits the ground.