Extreme cold freezes water even as it is poured from a kettle.

Evidence

One day of snow, mist, and darkness was rather depressing, and yesterday a hurricane began about five in the morning, and the whole park was one swirl of drifting snow, like stinging wood smoke. My bed and room were white, and the frost was so intense that water brought in a kettle hot from the fire froze as I poured it into the basin. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 245

Categorization

• CANDY: Water freezing between kettle and basin is a viscerally shareable detail about how cold it truly was.