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BlueintheSTL

(135 posts) Thu Jan 31, 2019, 12:42 PM Jan 2019

Here is one sensational, yet scary image

If one did not now better, you would think this is a scene from The Day After Tomorrow. This is REAL.

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Here is one sensational, yet scary image (Original Post) BlueintheSTL Jan 2019 OP

K&R. Please check your spelling. rzemanfl Jan 2019 #1

Thanks. Just a typo on my part. Corrected it. BlueintheSTL Jan 2019 #3

senational 2naSalit Jan 2019 #2

Yikes. I learned a new phrase yesterday: Frost Quakes fleur-de-lisa Jan 2019 #4

rzemanfl

(29,602 posts)

1. K&R. Please check your spelling.

Reply to BlueintheSTL (Original post)

Thu Jan 31, 2019, 12:45 PM

Jan 2019

I am not a grammar Nazi, I just play one on DU.

BlueintheSTL

(135 posts)

3. Thanks. Just a typo on my part. Corrected it.

Reply to rzemanfl (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 31, 2019, 12:49 PM

Jan 2019

2naSalit

(87,303 posts)

2. senational

Reply to BlueintheSTL (Original post)

Thu Jan 31, 2019, 12:49 PM

Jan 2019

New term for what we are seeing?

fleur-de-lisa

(14,631 posts)

4. Yikes. I learned a new phrase yesterday: Frost Quakes

Reply to BlueintheSTL (Original post)

Thu Jan 31, 2019, 01:01 PM

Jan 2019

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/31/frost-quakes-chicago-polar-vortex/2730412002/

Extreme cold causes bizarre things to happen, and that was certainly the case Wednesday in Chicago when a series of loud booms were reported.

The temperature in Chicago dropped to 23 below zero early Wednesday, one of the coldest readings ever recorded in the city.

What Chicago residents heard were likely "frost quakes," also known by the dull geological term "cryoseisms."

They occur when a rapid drop in temperature leads to a quick freeze, which causes the rock or soil to burst rather than just slowly expand, according to meteorologist Keith Heidorn. The rapid bursting sounds like noisy quake, along with possible shaking.

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