Scientist Atop Mount Washington Shares Photo Of Spaghetti And Fork Frozen Mid-Air

Not often can one say that their breakfast turned into a frozen sculpture worth sitting in a food-art gallery. But one scientist can say exactly that after his meal of leftover spaghetti froze before he could even take a bite of it while sitting atop Mount Washington.

Parts of New Hampshire have been experiencing some of the coldest days of the winter this week. And, to show just how cold it can get, one observer at the Mount Washington Observatory shared an image of his frozen breakfast. The scientist was about to relish his meal against a backdrop of the sunrise but saw his spaghetti, along with the gravity-defying fork, suspended in mid-air right above the snow-covered ground, as reported by WMUR-TV.

“One of our Observers found a protected area out of the 65+ mph winds this morning and was going to have some leftover spaghetti for breakfast at sunrise but the -30F (-34C) temperatures prevented them from even taking a bite,” said the caption of the post shared by Mount Washington Observatory on Facebook.

The observatory — a nonprofit research and educational institution — often leaves netizens spellbound by photographs shared from the 6,288 feet tall Mt. Washington, dubbed as “home of the world’s worst weather."

In November last year, scientists at the observatory woke up to find 10 inches of snow on the ground. They also opened their front door to find a solid wall of snow that was several feet high. The observatory said they spent over an hour clearing the drift, only to find the snow filling back in within a few hours, according to MassLive.

“They can get 10-, 12-foot drifts because of the way the snow accumulates,” Krissy Fraser, the observatory’s director of marketing and communications, said.

Researchers are kept company by Nimbus, a gray shorthair cat that found a home at the Mount Washington Observatory in April, 2021, according to the Associated Press.

Rebecca Scholand, the observatory summit operations manager, spoke about the four-legged friend in May 2021. “Our observers tell us Nimbus is a very sociable cat who uses a wide variety of meows, chatters and purrs to keep their attention and express happiness with his new home," Scholand said.