(WLUK) — A surprising and seemingly outrageous winter warning has been circulating social media, warning Midwesterners of exploding trees ahead of this week’s cold snap.<\/p>\n
FOX 11 Director of Meteorology Pete Petoniak says the conditions for Friday and Saturday will be just right for tree damage, but “exploding” isn’t the word he would use.<\/p>\n
Extreme cold weather<\/p>\n
When temperatures drop quickly to about -20 degrees, which will be the case overnight Thursday and into Friday, moisture from inside of the trees, such as sap or frost, freezes — and as it freezes, it expands, cracking or breaking the bark of the tree.<\/p>\n
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The tree doesn’t explode, but rather pops or cracks.<\/p>\n
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When this happens, it can be loud. Some people liken the sound to a car backfiring to a gunshot in the distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WLUK) — A surprising and seemingly outrageous winter warning has been circulating social media, warning Midwesterners of exploding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-424638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}