Spectacular photographs show the moment Niagara Falls FROZE as polar vortex saw record-breaking temperatures at tourist mecca. Incredible images show hundreds of beach ball-sized ICE BALLS filling Lake Michigan after freezing weather. The balls, weighing up to 75 pounds, form when chunks of ice break off the large sheets of ice on the lakeThe motion of the waves then smooth and round the edges of the ice, molding it into spheres similar to how stones are shapedExperts say the extreme cold weather has cost the U.S economy $5bn By Daily Mail Reporter.
Watch as t-shirt freezes in less than a minute in brutal Iowa cold. Wind chill values dropped as low as -20 Fahrenheit Monday in IowaTom Rouen, of Dubuque, froze a wet t-shirt outside in less than a minuteTHis is not his first t-shirt-related publicity stunt By Ryan Gorman.
Three Minnesota brothers create 16-foot snow shark in parents front yard. Three Minnesota brothers built a 16-foot-high snow shark in their parents' front yardThey began piling the snow on December 3 and spent 95 hours building itThe boys built a puffer fish and a walrus in previous years By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 23:45 GMT, 5 January 2014 | Updated: 10:38 GMT, 6 January 2014 This is one way to deal with the 'polar vortex'.
Three Minnesota brothers have spent 95 hours building a giant shark with the snow dumped outside their parents New Brighton home. Watch as the polar vortex instantly turns boiling water to snow. By James Nye Published: 21:04 GMT, 6 January 2014 | Updated: 23:03 GMT, 6 January 2014 Some of the hardy folks of Viroqua, Wisconsin are using the teeth-chattering polar vortex to conduct amusing science experiments - turning boiling water into snow.
As temperatures drop to minus 51 with a wind chill, meteorologist Eric Holthaus demonstrated the fascinating effect the cold has on a pot of boiling hot water thrown into the air. Coldest USA morning in decades - Great pics. The Midwest and the East were colder than much of Antarctica on TuesdayAround 70 daily record lows expected to be broken on Tuesday from the Deep South to Northeast and MidwestAlmost 1,200 flights were canceled at Chicago's two airports on Tuesday as a deep freeze lingers across the countryThe windchill in Comertown, Montana made it feel as low as -62°FIn New York City, Central Park was 5F on Tuesday, the coldest January 7 since 1896Almost 1,200 flights canceled at Chicago's two airports on Tuesday Further travel disruptions are expected and schools closures are still in effect in Washington D.C. and AtlantaExperts have called the temperatures and freezing winds 'dangerous and life threatening' - warning that skin can freeze in just ten minutes in wind chills of minus 50 By Louise Boyle.
Coldest morning in decades. Get ready for it to feel as cold as MINUS SIXTY! Nation braces for the coldest temperatures in 40 YEARS as 'polar vortex' crosses US. By Louise Boyle and Alex Ward and Michael Zennie and James Nye Published: 19:42 GMT, 3 January 2014 | Updated: 21:28 GMT, 4 January 2014 Experts have warned that Friday's freezing temperatures were simply a warm-up and that this weekend will bring a big chill for 140 million people - almost half the nation - that could prove fatal for the unprepared - and will continue through the winter.
With the Northeast still reeling from the huge storm that dumped as much as two-feet of snow across the region and was responsible for the deaths of 16 people, a new weather system is threatening to bring record low temperatures to the Midwest as a polar vortex barrels over the United States. 'It's the mother lode of cold air,' said Weather Channel coordinating meteorologist Tom Moore. 'On the heels of what will be the coldest air of the season, will be dangerous, life-threatening winds.' 'Anybody living out on the streets needs to be rounded up and put into a shelter,' said Moore to MSNBC News. 'Polar vortex' causes coldest temperatures in 20 years for half of US and wind chill warnings.
Nearly 187 million people, more than half of the nation's population, were under a wind chill warning or advisory on MondayThe coldest temperature reported in a 24-hour period through Monday was -36 degrees at Crane Lake, Minnesota, while the warmest was 84 at Hollywood and Punta Gorda, FloridaMinnesota officials took the rare step on Monday of closing all public schools; schools in St.
Louis, Chicago and Milwaukee were also shut and schools in Washington D.C. and Atlanta will also be closed on TuesdayThousands of flights have been canceled and JetBlue shut down its operations in Boston and New York-area airports in an attempt to correct the backlog of canceled flights; it will resume as normal tomorrowExperts have called the temperatures and freezing winds 'dangerous and life threatening' - warning that skin can freeze in just ten minutes in wind chills of minus 50; parts of Minnesota could be hit with wind chills of minus 60New York Gov. How does a polar vortex occur? New York Gov. Michigan lighthouses transformed into giant icicle after freezing storm. By Simon Tomlinson Published: 11:48 GMT, 6 January 2014 | Updated: 16:01 GMT, 6 January 2014 These frozen lighthouses in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a scene from the disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow.
Standing in temperatures well below freezing, the 30ft structures have been transformed into giant icicles. These stunning photographs were captured by American photographer Thomas Zakowski, 56, on a trip to two cities in Michigan after a storm battered the state. Entombed by the weather: This lighthouse in Michigan resembles a giant icicle after crashing waves were frozen around it by a severe winter storm Picturesque: This lighthouse was captured in the city of St Joseph. Mr Zakowski, from South Bend, Indiana, said: 'The lighthouses were frozen solid by the waves that came crashing down against the pier. 'It looks like a stairway in many ways and added a quality to the scene you will never see again.' 'Every year it's different, but it's an event I look forward to very much.