What do you do when it is -25 ºF on a Friday morning? It only gets this cold once in a while here in southeast Michigan, so we decided to have a little fun. With all of the bitterly cold last year, the internet was ready with cold weather experiments to try (click here to learn about a few of them).

We decided on the “Throw-Boiling-Water-Into-the-Frigid-Air” experiment (scientific details here). Deb got these great photographs documenting the boiling water hitting the air and turning into ice crystals. Check it out…

The initial toss. Cool fireworks-like effect.

Throwing the rest of the water.

Frozen fog hanging in the air.

Ice crystal clouds drift away.

Spring should be coming soon, right?