I first moved to Minnesota in 1995, and have spent many a cold winter there. But I never heard of the exploding trees. I am well aware of the trick with the exploding boiling water.
This is a new one for me. From the U.K. Daily Mail,
As a potentially historic winter storm prepares to slam the US, meteorologists have warned that conditions could become so brutal that trees could start exploding.
Really?
[He] singled out Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, and northern Iowa and Illinois and the states likely to see this take place in his strange but accurate warning.
I have been to all of those places in mid-winter and Manitoba to boot.
Be on the lookout.
