“Could a single, sharp boom on a bitter night come from the ground itself?” In some areas of the Midwest, the sound comes ...

If you’ve been online lately, you may have seen alarming headlines claiming that “exploding trees” are waking people up ...

Social media posts warned of "exploding trees" when temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero.

These noises are known as frost quakes or cryoseisms, a cold-weather phenomenon that occurs when rain or melted snow in the ...

Winter driving has its own kind of soundtrack, and not all of it is comforting. When temperatures drop, your car suddenly becomes a composer of strange noises that you never hear the rest of the year.

Go back to a cold morning. (It could even be when you woke up this Tuesday morning.) Other WRAL Top Stories Do you recall smelling your neighbor's fireplace? Maybe you heard a train and thought, "I ...