Have you gone hunting in the winter and watched the trees bark split from a sub zero cold front?

You know where you can actually hear and see everything freeze instantly from a rapid super drop in temperature?





To be clear on this I mean where the temperature drops from just above freezing to below zero in minutes and you can actually see everything turning white and hear the crackling of everything freezing super fast. This phenomenon is more common in high mountain areas in winter.Have you gone hunting in the winter and watched the trees bark split from a sub zero cold front?
I have seen trees actually explode!Have you gone hunting in the winter and watched the trees bark split from a sub zero cold front?
In Michigans upper peninsula i have seen something similar. A cold front came in and flash froze all the branches untill they got really heavy and drooped onto big river. When the ice finally started moving over the ground again it snapped a bunch of cedar tree's right off at the base because the branches were now frozen to the ice. But i havn't even heard of bark snapping from a sudden sub-zero drop. Put it this way, there would have to be alot of water inside that bark to cause enough expansion to crack. Would be a cool picture though huh.
Yes I have. Here is a pdf from Oxford explaining tree damage from cold snaps;


http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprin鈥?/a>





Some trees will split with a very loud sound similar to a gun shot. And this was noted in the Oxford paper.
No,but I've been on a stream fishing when it was so cold that what we call milk weed would be popping because of freezing.
No I never have but It sounds pretty cool!
Yeah.....especially after a good rain or sleet..........