That sounds like the name of some Street Theater Group.
“Exploding Maple Trees”..Pantomime, Air Guitar, Drum Circles and virtual yodeling.
We lost one Maple in the 2011 freeze - it cracked and never recovered, but the cracks in our remaining one mostly healed back
If you are lucky, the explosions will be mild, the trees will heal quickly and a fairly normal syrup harvest can happen in March. If the cold snap is too long or too pronounced, you can write off the harvest for the year.
I know a guy who owns a substantial amount of maple forests. He harvests the sap in March and sends it up to Vermont for processing where they can label it Vermont maple syrup and jack up the price big time. He tells me that Pennsylvania could process our own maple syrup if we wanted to and leave Vermont in the dust as we outproduce them in sap by many times. But it is just more profitable to ship it to Vermont for processing.
Cottonwood trees hold an amazing amount of water and I’ve heard them pop during a cold snap (-15F) in SE Alaska. Super loud sharp crack/bang that I wouldn’t want to be standing next to.
at -10 i’ve heard nails pop on the deck so loud sounded like pistol shots
anthropogenic climate change?
Where I live the loud cracks are gunfire.
Folks around here go to the riverbanks near by and light stuff up.
It’s kind of unnerving to the folks that just moved in from out of state.
Maple trees from which syrup are produced are largely “up north”, up into Canada. Do those trees explode, or is this only for those in Texas?
During winter, the sap flows into the roots of the maple, leaving the wood of the tree relatively dry.
As winter draws to a close, the days are (relatively) warm and the nights are still frosty. The problem comes on very warm days when the sap flows back up into the wood too early. Then the freeze causes the water-like sap to expand and the wood splits apart with a loud pop.