It’s so cold in Minneapolis (-21), you can pound nails with bananas, both peeled and unpeeled. This meteorologist does the frozen bubble trick as well, and tosses hot water into the air to watch it instantly evaporate. I actually tried the hot water thing myself when I got home from work tonight (it’s -14 right now). It was pretty cool; I felt like Mr. Wizard.
Sharyn
My husband loves to entertain the kids with the throwing boiling water into the freezing cold. None of it even hits the ground! I'm going to mention the banana trick. The kids would love that.
Johnny Cat
"We just saw the banana hammer, there." bwaahahhahaaha!
JM
Neat.... until your glass on your car shatters from closing the door! (happened this morning to me.)
Staxeon
Yes, but can you hammer a six inch spike through a board with your....banana?
Christophe
Cool!... er, no : Cold!
befu
ah, wonderful. it was -24 when i was coming home from work this evening.
and they should have had sven. oh well!
alxtrm
I live in a small town in north east Quebec, Canada. And its -51 tonight with the wind 
never seen -51 before :O
tedbarker
Come to winnipeg.
It's -45f with the windchill right now.
The other day it was -61f with the windchill.
gabi
I used to work in Milwaukee, which is cold (though not as cold as some of these other places) and schools and offices didn't closed even when I'd be walking through knee high ice and snow to get to work. My former coworkers still had work this past week. Now in Virginia... it was drizzling at 35F not too long ago (yes, 35 on the positive side) and most of the schools and plenty offices closed and everyone's tossing salt every which way because of the POSSIBILITY of sleet. Turned out, water stays liquid when the temperature doesn't go below freezing. Who'da thunk?
Perhaps the banana test should be the defining factor on closings...
Alex
Whoa! Who knew that you could embed a CNN video!
Alana
I grew up 150 miles north of Minneapolis, where it's much colder. There's nothing like that feeling of snot freezing inside your nasal passages when you breathe.
Gail Pink
JM, while I sympathize completely with your car woe, I did think it sounded hilarious when I read your post. It's good to have a postive attitude about these things. Good luck with the repairs adn everybody stay warm (11 degrees in NYC right now)
Alli
I live about an hour and half south of Minneapolis and it was -36 this morning when I woke up. They have cancelled school around the state the past two days because it's so cold! There's nothing like walking from your car into work and feeling your sinuses freezing along the way. Ahhh, winter....
SenorMysterioso
Cant help but snicker at "banana hammer"
Hot water trick is always fun
MrPumpernickel
Pussies! -14F is nothing, where I come from we regularly have temperatures below -22F, even as far as -40F at times. Add windchill to that and -14F is a bloody cakewalk, almost like shorts weather.
Bruno
The water doesn't evaporate.
It sublimates. The hot liquid water breaks up into ice crystals and then much of that goes directly into a gas state. That part which doesn't falls as snow.
It's almost the same thing that happens when you hang wet clothes out in winter. They freeze, and then they dry as the ice goes from a solid directly to a gas without passing thru the water state.
Sublimation.
Neat huh?
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