The Warm Bucket on a Frozen Desert Road: Unanswered Vapor
The Warm Bucket on a Frozen Desert Road: Unanswered Vapor
A five-gallon bucket of water sat upright on a deserted access road at 6:15 AM on February 17, 2011, its water a half-inch from the rim and visibly steaming in 23°F air - yet the water felt merely cool, not frozen. How did warm water appear in an open bucket four miles from the nearest water line and near a dry creek with no nearby people or structures?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events on Dry Mesa Ranch that framed that impossible bucket: the resurfacing of hundreds of gallons in a sealed cistern, the long winter runs…
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