Many have compared it to a scene from The Day After Tomorrow movie. Lake Michigan, hit by a wave of arctic frost, is one of the most photographed places in the world right now
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himMany have compared it to a scene from The Day After Tomorrow movie. Lake Michigan, hit by a wave of Arctic frost, is one of the most photographed places in the world right now.
There these days the temperatures have dropped below -40 ° C making some areas of the USA even colder than the Poles. In Chicago, the average temperature hovers around -17 ° C, temperatures never seen in 150 years.
Discomfort aside, the glimpses given by ice and snow are breathtaking. Completely frozen Lake Michigan is surreal.
At certain times of the day, a strange fog rises from its surface. This sort of vapor is created when the temperature of the water is higher than that of the air. A show within a show.
There have been over 2700 canceled flights across the United States these days but one of the travelers who managed to fly to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport took this photo from above:
My brother was on one of the few flights into Chicago this morning. He took this photo of frozen Lake Michigan from the plane. pic.twitter.com/cS8XRCTPQV
- David Funk (@DavidPFunk) January 30, 2019
Lake Michigan is one of the largest in all of the United States. It is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one to be entirely included in the territory of the United States. A real symbol for the city of Chicago but also for the others, which overlook it: Evanston, Gary, Holland, Muskegon and Milwaukee,
Some of the images taken in Chicago these days:
Here are the most spectacular tweets from frozen Lake Michigan
Anyone want to go to the beach? Frozen Lake Michigan in #Chicago. pic.twitter.com/TF6AZgaNeP
- Tina Jensen (@TinaRJensen) January 29, 2019
@weatherchannel You know it’s cold when Lake Michigan freezes – MORE PICS. pic.twitter.com/C4zcw9mi4n
- CrazyCatLady9 (@ CrazyCatMommy9) January 30, 2019
Scene from The Day After Tomorrow vs Lake Michigan currently ? pic.twitter.com/RO7IxmWuv6
- AJ (@AmandaJanalis) January 31, 2019
View of Lake Michigan from my apartment. One of the more awe-inspiring sights I’ve seen in my two years in Chicago pic.twitter.com/ERH0xebgPx
- John Gordon (@John_W_Gordon) January 30, 2019
READ also:
- Frost in the US: Chicago is colder than the North Pole (but Trump jokes about climate change)
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Francesca Mancuso
