The frost quake weather phenomenon occurs when the ground is saturated with water or ice.
Frost quakes on roof.
Right now that s the case in the midwest where many spots were recently covered with snow that then.
Residents around the gta reported hearing a loud bang in the middle of the night friday jan.
Read the latest forecast for central indiana.
Frost quakes or ice quakes are heard most often at night because the air is the coldest and the ambient.
Julie justus described the sound as giant booms on the roof of her home in irvington.
It could cause your own roof to flex a little bit and make it sound like the roof is causing.
Ice quakes are not like earthquakes and don t have an affect on the earth s tectonic plates.