Minnesota Newz- Science Edition

When people in Upstate New York find out I'm from Minnesota, they usually nod and say: 'So the weather's pretty much the same, then.'

No. No it's not. Upstate, we get a fuckton of snow. In Syracuse, we've already got 1.8 biebers of snow (1.8 bbrz; 117 inches). Today it is snowing. Like it did yesterday. Like it will do tomorrow.

But in Minnesota, it's cold. Pretty much every winter, there's a day where it's just ridiculous. Today is a particularly good example; overnight lows in Southern Minnesota were typically between 15 and 30 below. Obviously, it was even colder up north.

Here's a video of some friends of a friend to illustrate the phenomenon:



Science! :jazzhands:

Transcript below

Off-screen: Rollin'

Narrator: So I've got a cup of boiling water. Hopefully you can see the steam there, and we are going outside in Northfield Minnesota in January where the temperature is approaching thirty below...

[Steps outside, the door creaks like its approaching thirty below out]

Narrator: ..and what I am going to show you is how at thirty below temperatures, boiling water can instantly vaporize into a cloud.

[Throws water into the air, and it instantly vaporizes into a fucking cloud.]

Narrator: And that's what we do for fun in Minnesota.

Off-screen: [Laughter]