South Porcupine, Ontario, has an awesome name but we probably wouldn’t want to live there: It had temperatures of -42 degrees last week. On the plus side, this meant that a resident with the YouTube username chrisgsauce was able to make it snow by shooting a Super Soaker full of boiling water into the air. (As though Ontario needed more snow.)

Jesus. What’s it like in NORTH Porcupine?

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Wind chills in the Chicago region were cold enough this morning that this trick might have worked in the U.S., too:

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Midwesterners, maybe load up a Super Soaker of boiling water tomorrow morning! If you can’t make snow with it, you can at least shoot it down your trousers to keep warm.