Stay warm, Canadian FRiends.
While living in my cabin in Idaho at 3500’ or so elevation, during the real cold stretches, -20 and below, you’d hear trees cracking with the cold, almost like gunshots.
I'm not freaking out, I'm just saddened that the Algor's environazis aren't sitting home, alone, in the dark, freezing.
Permafrost it turning permafrostier.
More commonly heard on large frozen lakes. Rather disconcerting to be sitting a mile out on ice and having a monster crack and heave rip across a lake.
My wife and daughter just went to the beach. It’s a gorgeous day down here in Floriduh.
It’s a global warming quake, kinda like the stuck ships in Antarctica...
***’polar vortex’,***
Back in the olden days of a few years ago they referred to as “The Siberian Express” or “Alberta Clipper”.
“Polar Vortex” gives it a more fearful ring, like calling a rain storm a “drenchero” or a sandstorm now called a “haboob”.
We hear frost related sounds on our lake. Sounds almost like some little animal chattering, but it’s the lake ice cracking.
When it gets really cold, like -20F or colder, the rafters in our home make banging noises which I believe are the nailed joints minutely shifting due to contracting parts.
When we go on the roof to shovel snow off, care must be taken to prevent the asphalt shingles from breaking. A thick dull plastic shovel works best.
Here in the states we call those “Glowbull Warming Quakes”, and the only way to stop them is to elect demoncrats.
Toronto: 32
Ottawa: 23
Montreal: 26
Calgary: 3
Current temps in the US:
Billings, MT: 2
Minneapolis: -5
Bismarck,ND: -13
Tundra thunder
It’s going to be in the teens in Texas tonight. I’ve been thinking I might have to put on some shoes tomorrow.
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.
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!
aka Frost Farts.
We are having these cryoseisms in VT too. This is not really an issue about it being uncommonly cold. -4F is only moderately cold really.
The real issue is that it got cold right after we had a lot of rain. It’s not very common around here to have rain and then get subzero temps right afterwards.
Heard the booms or thunder up in Alaska on a lake there. Clear bright day and cold, and you hear thunder or a loud rumbling boom