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Canada is so cold residents are experiencing loud booms caused by 'frost quakes'
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 13:59 EST, 5 January 2014 | James Nye

Posted on 01/05/2014 1:12:25 PM PST by BenLurkin

While America collectively freaks out over their impending 'polar vortex', Canada is changing the game when it comes to cold weather phenomenon as reports of 'frost quakes' emerge from around Toronto and Ontario.

Indeed, as temperatures drop overnight to around -4f around the city hundreds of people are being startled by hearing large booms - causing them to think their homes are being broken into or gunshots are being fired.

In fact, they are merely hearing the after-effects of the frost quakes - or cryoseism - which are more commonly found on a glacier in the polar regions.

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KEYWORDS: globalcooling
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To: BenLurkin

21 posted on 01/05/2014 1:56:04 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Liberty Valance

“Slowly I turned...”


22 posted on 01/05/2014 1:57:40 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: EricT.
It’s a gorgeous day down here in Floriduh.

Yeahbut, we don't have the bugs when it's minus 20.

23 posted on 01/05/2014 1:57:49 PM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: BenLurkin

Tundra thunder


24 posted on 01/05/2014 1:57:54 PM PST by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s going to be in the teens in Texas tonight. I’ve been thinking I might have to put on some shoes tomorrow.


25 posted on 01/05/2014 1:57:54 PM PST by bgill
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To: redfreedom
We hear frost related sounds on our lake. Sounds almost like some little animal chattering, but it’s the lake ice cracking.

"Did somebody say 'Crack'?"

26 posted on 01/05/2014 2:03:02 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

Was camping in Sequoia National Park years ago at Mineral King. In winter
We were on a frozen lake that as it froze solid it would ever so slightly expand, moving the mountain.
I was looking for a mushroom cloud.


27 posted on 01/05/2014 2:09:46 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: Bernard Marx
A polar vortex is more like a hurricane than a tornado, it is very large, continent sized. It creates a barrier over the poles so that warmer air from the temperate regions does not mix with the air inside the vortex. This is why there are ozone holes over the poles, because ozone naturally breaks down when it absorbs ultraviolet light, or through chemical reactions in extreme cold, and over the poles in darkness there is nothing to create ozone, or allow tropic air with ozone to replentish the air inside the vortex.

Considering that this spring over the anrartic saw the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth, I would think there will be news about a large ozone hole over Antartica this last spring(fall).

28 posted on 01/05/2014 2:18:41 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Cementjungle

It’s -34F in Edmonton, AB, according to my cell phone app.


29 posted on 01/05/2014 2:19:32 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: EricT.
My wife and daughter just went to the beach. It’s a gorgeous day down here in Floriduh.

Just wait till a zombie outbreak. You will be running for your life, while I, with an axe, warm boots, and a thermos of hot chocolate, will clear out the zombiecicles in no time.

30 posted on 01/05/2014 2:22:42 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Jonty30
When cell phone apps from Accuweather get cold, they start to make up stuff........

Like so: this is ALL due to global warming.......

31 posted on 01/05/2014 2:23:10 PM PST by Lakeshark (Mr Reid, tear down this law!)
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To: BenLurkin
step by step ...
32 posted on 01/05/2014 2:36:45 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Jonty30

I guess that officially counts as “chilly”


33 posted on 01/05/2014 3:23:33 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Jonty30

-11F right now.


34 posted on 01/05/2014 3:27:26 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: BenLurkin

The last time I was in Canada in the winter I saw something that I will probably never see again. It was called “hoar frost”, I may have misspelled it. It was ice crystals that just hung in the air. They didn’t seem to be falling just moving around a little. The sun was out and they just sparkled in the air. Beautiful!


35 posted on 01/05/2014 3:30:43 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Cementjungle

Our high today in Fargo: -15.

It’s already -18, dropping to about -36 tonight.


36 posted on 01/05/2014 3:35:57 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: gorush
Same here. About three years ago we had a cold freeze, and I heard several very loud cracks late in the evening.

When I got up the next day several large branches had cracked and were lying on the ground.

37 posted on 01/05/2014 3:42:11 PM PST by mware
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To: Arthur McGowan

egad!


38 posted on 01/05/2014 3:46:47 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

It’s 31 tonight in NE PA. Feels like a heat wave.


39 posted on 01/05/2014 3:48:58 PM PST by angcat
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To: BenLurkin

aka Frost Farts.


40 posted on 01/05/2014 3:49:37 PM PST by PJ-Comix (ObamaCare PAID Enrollment Prediction: 66,666)
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