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Of course clothes can dry outside even in cold weather. Clothes dry not just due to heat but also due to the flow of wind through the fibres of the fabric. The wind carries away water thus making it dry although a little late.

Of course clothes won't really dry in freezing temperatures. The reason for that is because my husband says they will and we all know husbands are usually wrong about these type of things;-)

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Yes, clothes can still dry in cold and even freezing temperatures. It will just happen more slowly.

When individual water molecules gain enough energy, they turn to water vapor. At lower temperatures, there is less heat for this to happen, but it can happen.

If the temperatures are below freezing and the water has all frozen, the individual ice molecules cannot technically evaporate. If the temperature gets above freezing and/or it's sunny enough, some of the ice can melt and the water can then evaporate.

However, frozen water can transition directly to water vapor in a process known as sublimation. It's covered on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_vapor

Think of dry ice (carbon dioxide) - it goes from solid directly to gas. This is sublimation.

Frozen water can do this too. It won't happen as rapidly as with dry ice or as when liquid water evaporates, but it will happen.

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