Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Crazy weather in Minnesota

The weather is totally crazy

The lowest temperature is 30 below Celsius, and the windchill is 50 below !

Even though it is cold....

Before I arrived here, I had lots of changes to search for the information about Minnesota, and the most impressive one was how cold the Minnesota weather is. As Minnesota is located in about the same latitude with North Korea, I expected that it might be pretty cold, but I didn't expect that it would be like this.. 


So, right now, the temperature is 25 below Celsius which is about 10~15 below Fahrenheit and the wind chill is even far less than that. There was no school in Minnesota for 2 days, and it is going to start to open tomorrow. I could hear the news about the car accidents which were caused by the slippery and icy road for whole day, and some people even passed away because of the enormous low temperature.

While I was suffering from the crazy weather, I could also experience an awesome scientific moment.
  By the way, few years ago, I had an opportunity to watch a YouTube video which was uploaded in Moscow, Russia, and it was showing me a unorthodox and outrageous scene that a cup of water just changed into whole bunch of snows after spreading into the cold air.... To be honest, I didn't believe it at all, thinking that somebody might fix this video with a graphic effect to tease YouTube users including me.
 But..........
 It really happened to me yesterday.
I just boiled 1.5L water and moved it into a big glass cup, mixing it with a red color to make it more bright and beautiful. And then, I just threw it into the cold freezing air! And like a magic, it just turned into a WHITE SNOW (it is disappointing that my intention to make a red colored snow failed....). 
I just stand up there, opening my mouth with astonishment, watching the fascinating moment that I've never experienced, and also I've never imagined that it can be really happened on the Earth...  

Even though I couldn't go outside for 2 days because of the enormous cold weather, I could see an amazing moment, and.. at the same time, I'm perfectly ready for the school starting tomorrow again!

Gunho Park