Galadrond t1_j798zaa wrote on February 5, 2023 at 1:29 AM

Reply to comment by RoyalIndependence500 in Frost Quakes by Commercial_Case_7475

It happens. Certain kinds of trees are more susceptible to it. Sounds like anything from a gunshot, a loud cracking noise, to popping the cork off a wine bottle. It’s just rare-er in VT.

RoyalIndependence500 t1_j7aoww5 wrote on February 5, 2023 at 11:04 AM

I’ve heard it many times. My career was as a field going staff of the Forest Service and I also worked for years in the Adirondacks. You get the weirdest looks chopping up frozen beaver carcasses along the side of the road when your conducting fisher research, but I digress. In decades of research in the Forest year round, I’ve never heard of trees exploding from cold, but I’ve heard the very loud popping. So that’s a new one for me.

Galadrond t1_j7ondxh wrote on February 8, 2023 at 8:27 AM

Saplings and the branches of young trees definitely explode.

RoyalIndependence500 t1_j7p1awq wrote on February 8, 2023 at 11:43 AM

Thanks! You taught me something new, I appreciate that.