In New England 2 winters ago, we had a -30F night without wind chill. What I noticed most was a lot of our pines sounded like they were exploding through the night. It turns out, it was the sap inside the tree freezing and blowing veins out.
You know it's cold when Pine Sap inside of Conifers are freezing up. It sounded like a shooting range.
golfduke said:In New England 2 winters ago, we had a -30F night without wind chill. What I noticed most was a lot of our pines sounded like they were exploding through the night. It turns out, it was the sap inside the tree freezing and blowing veins out.
You know it's cold when Pine Sap inside of Conifers are freezing up. It sounded like a shooting range.
A few years ago in the UP, similar temperatures (colder IIRC), there was a sound like a cannon amid the shooting range cacophony. Came out the next morning and a white pine had exploded. Apparently it had a little hollow spot that was filled with sap; it eventually froze and sent pine shrapnel about 15 feet in every direction.
mtn said:golfduke said:In New England 2 winters ago, we had a -30F night without wind chill. What I noticed most was a lot of our pines sounded like they were exploding through the night. It turns out, it was the sap inside the tree freezing and blowing veins out.
You know it's cold when Pine Sap inside of Conifers are freezing up. It sounded like a shooting range.
A few years ago in the UP, similar temperatures (colder IIRC), there was a sound like a cannon amid the shooting range cacophony. Came out the next morning and a white pine had exploded. Apparently it had a little hollow spot that was filled with sap; it eventually froze and sent pine shrapnel about 15 feet in every direction.
It's one of my favorite sayings- Nature is so Metal.
Not quite -30 ambient, but I saw this badass dude this morning. 7am in Western PA, ambient temp was 1 at the time 😮
In reply to XLR99 (Forum Supporter) :
I ride motorcycles.
When I see something like that, I remember riding my bicycle to school in winter and finding black ice.
I went down so hard and so fast, I thought I broke a bone.
I've crashed a lot on my mountain bike but I've never, ever hit the ground as fast as when I hit that ice.
Riding a motorcycle in sub-freezing weather is f-ing stupid.
I have a friend who sourced snow tires for his Vespa so he could ride it through the winter. He had varying degrees of success.
In reply to ShawnG :
I used to occasionally ride my VFR to work when it was ~30 in the morning, with a small fairing and heated grips. That was way too cold for my feet and knees, even for 10 min on the highway.
The guy looked pretty miserable - I beeped and gave him a wave, and he looked like his hands were barely able to move.
In reply to Peabody :
My wife's Vespa 300 has Heidenau K58 tires on it because we live on gravel.
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