Posted on 01/11/2022 10:02:04 AM PST by Daffynition
Temperatures across New England dipped below zero Tuesday, but on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, a different, more anecdotal metric described the treacherous weather: the air was cold enough to freeze a dish of spaghetti, fork included, in mid-air.
Like a futuristic sculpture memorializing morning-after leftovers, the plate of pasta stood suspended in its place, its fork defying gravity as it hovered several inches off the snowy ground.
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loved fishing the big lakes- but one year, we pushed it too far and fog rolled in and had to creep our car back to shore because there was a gap we had to find and drive over boards - That lake was notorious for breaking up in winds too- that was a little too much- never went back to the lake that late in season again-
Glad you had a good time- so relaxing being out i n nature, hunting, fishing, even just hoking-
“The Cog Railway is the way-to-go, IMHO.... in the summer, naturally. “
Yeah, in the winter that’s the bobsled run. :)
Yes, cold winter air. Quick question, when it gets below zero, does your snow squeak? This morning it was 16 and no squeaking snow. When I got off work it was 37 above.
I walked into Aldi w/o a coat. It felt great. Then I hear a weatherman say that in a Southern state it was going to be a cold 37 degrees.
In New England an ice house is a building to store the ice harvest
Even with the best of planning, you can get into so real trouble up there.
1978 Vintage Frozen Moments Pop Art Spaghetti Sculpture [$250.00]
The auto road is closed now; but you can take the SnowCoach up until March; snowshoe down.
It was minus 5°F with 50 mph wind gusts at Anchorage airport a couple weeks ago. Pretty severe wind chill.
That kind of weather ain’t in the Bible!
science!
The Mt. Washington Hillclimb was one of those bucket list bicycle races back in the day. Eight miles, the last three on dirt. Did it in 1986. Took 2 hours. Sunny and 70 at the bottom and 40 with 10 foot visibility at the top. Some sections so steep if you weren’t balanced just right your front wheel would lift or your back would spin. They’d drive you back down, because trying to ride down would probably get you killed.
> Did you hike up?
Of course. Back then there was no other way in the winter.
I’ve climbed that mountain at least 10 times, both summer and winter, but I’ve never taken the auto road or cog wheel rail.
Let me tell you, when you cross the tree line and the 100mph artic winds tear in to you, it is unforgettable.
Yes it does (and i cant stand the noise- never could=- reminds me of squeeking styofoam which i also don’t like lol)
LOL- not quite that small :)
I took the Cog Railway up a few years ago.
Down below it was a beautiful mid 80’s day.
Up top it was like being on the planet Mars..
It is all heat, until a temperature of absolute “zero” is reached. Absolute zero is a theoretical state in which all molecular motion ceases.
**Cold is the lack of heat. Or, more accurately, cold is when it’s not hot: in physics, heat refers to a transfer of energy between two systems. What we talk about when we talk about hot and cold is temperature.
And temperature can and is measured absolutely. But what does it measure? The agitation of the molecules within a system. To be slightly more specific, temperature is more or less proportional to the average square of speed at which molecules move within a body. The faster they move, the hotter the body is, and the higher the temperature.
So, while temperature has no theoretical maximum, it has a minimum: the state in which all the molecules within the body have no movement at all. Scientists refer to it as the absolute zero, and in practice it is impossible to attain: we’ve only been able to get really, really, really close to it in labs (think a tenth of a billionth of a degree).
The absolute zero is equal (small approximation) to −273.15 °C (degrees Celsius), or −459.67 °F (degrees Fahrenheit). And there exists a third temperature unit, widely used in science, called Kelvins (not degrees Kelvin, just Kelvins). It’s very simple: the Kelvin scale is just the Celsius scale shifted so that the absolute zero is equal to 0 K. So 0 °C is equal to + 273.15 K, 100 °C (temperature at which water boils in the usual conditions) is + 373.15 K, etc. For example, in outer space it’s about 3 K hot. So, not very hot…**
**Anything higher than that point is heat. The calculation of heat, expressed as a “number” is entirely arbitrary, based on assumptions and needs of the people doing the measuring. But all of it eventually refers to molecular activity, in which “faster” is “hotter.”
In a simplified analogy, we might compare temperature to speed, and ask if “slow” is the lack of “speed,” or if “speed is the lack of slow.” In truth, as long as something is moving, it has speed, until there is no speed, at all. Everything above 0 is speed, however small it may be.**
So, it’s all a koan. :)
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