The sun shines on your roof all day warming the tiles and sub roof.
Roof spinner noise cold weather.
What you re hearing however is the effect of low temperatures on the building materials.
When water freezes it expands instead of contracting.
Awakening in the middle of a cold night by repeated loud banging from your home s roof can be quite alarming giving rise to visions of falling tree limbs or intruders on the roof.
As your house quiets down at night and the temperatures fall the cooling of your roof components can often be heard.
When the pipes burst you will hear a loud popping sound.
While these are easily explained and remedied some other offensive sounds are not.
Most noises in our homes are due to loud music being played rambunctious kids annoying appliances or excessive traffic noise outside.
Your complaint of unusual cracking noises during the winter is a common one from occupants of homes built pre 1980 s.
Water in the pipes will freeze in the cold weather.
Popping cracking and snapping sounds coming from their roofs especially when the colder weather hits is a common problem.
The loud bang may have been caused by underground water freezing but it could also have been caused by your roof framing being affected by the extreme cold temperature.