'Frost Quakes' May Be Hitting Chicago As Temperature Drops To Record-Breaking Lows..
The winter weather isn't done with Chicago; now there is talk of frost quakes.
CNN affiliate WGN reported Wednesday that viewers in the Chicago area were awakened by a series of booms.
"I thought I was crazy! I was up all night because I kept hearing it," viewer Chastity Clark Baker said on Facebook, the news station reported. "I was scared and thought it was the furnace. I kept walking through the house. I had everyone's jackets on the table in case we had to run out of here."
That boom was no furnace ready to burst, but it probably was a weather phenomenon as dauntingly named as the "firenado": the frost quake.
A frost quake, or cryoseism, occurs when the water underground freezes and expands causing the soil and rock to crack.
That booming or banging sound usually begins when there is a sudden drop in temperature, WGN reported, much like Chicago's recent dip to a record-breaking low of 27 below.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...tc7?li=BBnb7Kz
The winter weather isn't done with Chicago; now there is talk of frost quakes.
CNN affiliate WGN reported Wednesday that viewers in the Chicago area were awakened by a series of booms.
"I thought I was crazy! I was up all night because I kept hearing it," viewer Chastity Clark Baker said on Facebook, the news station reported. "I was scared and thought it was the furnace. I kept walking through the house. I had everyone's jackets on the table in case we had to run out of here."
That boom was no furnace ready to burst, but it probably was a weather phenomenon as dauntingly named as the "firenado": the frost quake.
A frost quake, or cryoseism, occurs when the water underground freezes and expands causing the soil and rock to crack.
That booming or banging sound usually begins when there is a sudden drop in temperature, WGN reported, much like Chicago's recent dip to a record-breaking low of 27 below.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...tc7?li=BBnb7Kz
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