you see, for some unknown reason hot water freezes fast than cold water. in siberia if it’s relly cold you can chuck like a cup of boiling water and it freezes to mist mid-air. My best guess it, that they wanted to try the same but with way too much water and too high temperatures.
In case I just didn’t get that you already knew that and I seem like a “superior intellectual”, my apologies. Not sure if you were acutally asking or not