Peter Elliott at 13 ON YOUR SIDE said it plainly: the videos, the maps, and the memes make it sound like something out of an action movie – trees “exploding” in the bitter cold – so he set out to ask ...

When super cold weather moves in, we learn about new weather phenomena. Things like bomb cyclone and polar vortex quickly become part of our vocabulary, and we find new and exciting ways to describe ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. — John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech's campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the moment a man filming himself chopping wood in Iron River, Wisconsin during the passage of Winter Storm Fern on January ...

Social media posts warning of "exploding trees" in subzero temperatures are mischaracterizing a phenomenon known as frost cracks. Frost cracks form when water inside trees freezes and expands. As a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the moment a man filming himself chopping wood in Iron River, Wisconsin during the passage of Winter Storm Fern on January ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the moment a man filming himself chopping wood in Iron River, Wisconsin during the passage of Winter Storm Fern on January ...