Comments on: Puddles and Soil Temperature, Part 2: Why is the water feeding the puddle not frozen? http://globe.gov/explore-science/scientists-blog/archived-posts/sciblog/2008/03/17/puddles-and-soil-temperature-part-2-why-is-the-water-feeding-the-puddle-not-frozen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=puddles-and-soil-temperature-part-2-why-is-the-water-feeding-the-puddle-not-frozen Tue, 25 Mar 2014 04:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: peggy http://globe.gov/explore-science/scientists-blog/archived-posts/sciblog/2008/03/17/puddles-and-soil-temperature-part-2-why-is-the-water-feeding-the-puddle-not-frozen/comment-page-1/#comment-2111 peggy Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:36:25 +0000 http://www.globe.gov/fsl/scientistsblog/?p=101#comment-2111 The puddle remained unfrozen for at least three days — and it seemed to be growing.

I was back in Missouri last week, and observed how these puddles form. The curbs on the street have gaps; the water flows through these gaps. You could see puddles continueing to form for a few days after rainfall, when it was sunny (and therefore there was a lot of energy to evaporate the water).

As I will show in upcoming blogs, salt also played a part in keeping the puddle liquid.

]]> By: jga http://globe.gov/explore-science/scientists-blog/archived-posts/sciblog/2008/03/17/puddles-and-soil-temperature-part-2-why-is-the-water-feeding-the-puddle-not-frozen/comment-page-1/#comment-2110 jga Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:59:30 +0000 http://www.globe.gov/fsl/scientistsblog/?p=101#comment-2110 How long did the puddle remain unfrozen? Unless it was fed with a constant supply of “warm” water, I would suspect the puddle to freeze over fairly quickly. That would help explain where the water might be coming from… A broken pipe would continue to leak until repaired, but if it was from a natural source, the water would start or stop any time depending on whether the water could seep into the earth/flow underground or not.

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