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[โ€“] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 65 points 3 months ago (19 children)

Ok, I live in Alberta, Canada. I grew up in the woods of Northern Alberta. We can get week long bouts of -40ยฐC/F and I have NEVER seen or heard of exploding trees in the area. Are American trees just weak, or is this fake?

[โ€“] protist@mander.xyz 55 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm going to guess it has to do with how quickly the temperature change occurs, or other environmental factors prior to the freeze. It seems to be a somewhat rare occurrence, even in places where it gets very cold

[โ€“] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

In Alberta a chinook can make the temp go from -20 to 20 in a matter of hours, the same backwards.

[โ€“] buffing_lecturer@leminal.space 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Huh TIL

The maximum daily temperature anomaly associated with the wind ranges from +13ยฐC in the northwest to +25ยฐC in the southeast. The temperature rise at the onset of the event is abrupt and steep; an increase of 27ยฐC in 2 minutes has been observed.

[โ€“] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They also create clippers on their way to the states, hence the term Alberta Clipper.

The chinook, which in part originates the Alberta clipper, usually brings relatively warm weather (often approaching 10ย ยฐC (50ย ยฐF) in the depths of winter) to southern Alberta itself, and the term is therefore not used in Alberta.

We uhhโ€ฆ. Just had a chinook last week, sorry.

[โ€“] buffing_lecturer@leminal.space 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel so uneducated on weather lol. I had no idea what a Chinook or Clipper were before now.

[โ€“] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Chinook is a helicopter and a Clipper is a basketball player.

๐ŸŒˆ The more you know ๐ŸŒˆ

[โ€“] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Does wind chill make water freeze faster?

[โ€“] Bluewing@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yes. It pulls the surface heat out faster. But, the lakes have been frozen over for weeks now, (18" on the lake I live next to-- we are driving pickup trucks on it to go ice fishing).

[โ€“] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

I think so. Wind chill is a roundabout way of comparing the capacity for heat extraction of moving air vs stagnant air.

[โ€“] Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The helicopter?

[โ€“] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

With enough flamethrowers, or an atom bomb, Iโ€™m sure the same could be attained.

[โ€“] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The ones that would explode did a loooong time ago.

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