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A frozen Lake Michigan in front of the Chicago skyline.
The Midwest, from the Dakotas to Western New York, is experiencing some of the coldest temperatures to hit the region in more than two decades, according to The Weather Channel - and the lake is feeling the effects.
As wind chill temperatures in Chicago dropped as low as -51 degrees Farenheit on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service, parts of Lake Michigan turned to ice.
Residents across Michigan, Chicago and Wisconsin braved the cold to share their photos of the icy lake to social media.
"My brother was on one of the few flights into Chicago this morning," one tweeter captioned a shot of the lake from the air. "He took this photo of frozen Lake Michigan from the plane."
© REUTERSA pedestrian stops to take a photo by Chicago River, as bitter cold phenomenon called the polar vortex has descended on much of the central and eastern United States, in Chicago, Illinois
The extreme Arctic blasts, caused by a spinning pool of cold air known as the polar vortex, could bring wind chill temperatures as low as -53C (-64F).
Weather officials in the state of Iowa have warned people to "avoid taking deep breaths, and to minimise talking" if they go outside.
At least five people have been reported dead across several states.
More than 55 million people currently face below-freezing temperatures.
A state of emergency has been declared in the Midwestern states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois as well as in the normally more clement southern states of Alabama and Mississippi.
Comment: Professor Valentina Zharkova explains and confirms why a "Super" Grand Solar Minimum is upon us
John Gagan, a National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist, said: "The intensity of this cold air, I would say, is once in a generation."
The NWS is warning that frostbite is possible within just 10 minutes of being outside in such extreme temperatures.
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This is an indicator of the Grand Solar Minimum intensifying. Good Luck and make preparations for power outages in this historic cold.
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© Irene KalaitzakiA thin layer of sand is seen atop the snow-covered Cretan mountains.
The strong winds which blew into Greece during the last several days, bringing enormous quantities of dust from the Sahara desert, have created a rare and unique phenomenon on the island.
The snow-covered tops of the Cretan mountains, including Leuka Ori, have seemingly captured a large amount of the African sand and dust which had been transported in the upper atmosphere all the way from the Sahara in the recent storms.
Traditionally, the Orava region in the north of Slovakia is among those hit by snowy weather the most. This was also so in January 2019 when there was a calamity in the village of Oravská Lesná and its surroundings.
The locals alone were not enough to remove the snow from the roads and roofs. Several hundreds of firemen, both professional and voluntary, and even soldiers helped to handle the emergency situation in Oravská Lesná.
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For eight brief minutes early Wednesday, it was -10° in Chicago. It might not get that "warm" again until around noon Thursday, and those eight minutes prevented the city from breaking at least one record for cold, though we've already broken another one.
The -10° high for Wednesday is one degree shy of the record for the coldest high temperature ever at O'Hare, the -11° mark set on Jan. 18, 1994, and Dec. 24, 1983.
However, Chicago has easily broken the Jan. 30 record low, which was -15° (Jan. 30, 1966). As of 7 a.m., it was -23° at O'Hare, the coldest it's been in Chicago in 34 years, and tied for 5th coldest temperature on record in Chicago.
The all-time record cold mark for Chicago was on Jan. 20, 1985, when it was -27°.
© New York State PoliceThe Captain JP III cruise ship is wedged against the Livingston Avenue train bridge that spans the Hudson River, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019 in Albany, N.Y.
New York State Police said in a series of posts on Twitter that the boats broke loose from their moorings in Troy before floating south down the Hudson River towards Albany.
State police were forced to close several bridges between Troy and Albany during the morning rush hour as a precaution as the boats drifted south.
State police posted an aerial image on Twitter showing the boats floating downriver.
Over 1,500 flights cancelled as winter weather wreaks havoc US's busiest airports
There are 977 flight cancellations and 143 delays as of 4:55 a.m., according to FlightAware.com.
"A dangerous week of cold air and travel conditions are coming up," Fox News Senior Meteorologist Janice Dean said Monday. "Snow and ice will coat even the Deep South Tuesday through Wednesday, which will make travel incredibly difficult and possibly crippling."
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has canceled 170 flights to and from Atlanta on Tuesday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
© ROBERT GREGORY, ROBERT GREGORY/AFPJust weeks after up to a million fish were killed, another mass death occurred in the Murray-Darling river system.
Locals around the Darling River were confronted with a sea of white, as dead fish carpeted the waters near the southeastern Outback town of Menindee.
Just weeks after up to a million were killed -- with scientists pointing to low water and oxygen levels as well as possibly toxic algae -- another mass death occurred in the key agricultural region.
Inspectors from the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries have visited the site and said they found that "hundreds of thousands of fish have died".
"Further fish deaths in the Darling River are anticipated as a significant number of fish have been observed under stress," the department said in a statement.
Some 700 kilos (1,543 pounds) of dead fish were removed from the river Monday, with similar amounts expected to be collected Tuesday, it added.
The Darling River is part of the Murray-Darling River system that stretches thousands of kilometres across several states.
Comment: Whether out of greed, ignorance or the need to acquire control of some kind (or all these), the global warmists continue propagating their narrative against all facts and reasoning to the contrary. They will continue to do so right up until the ice is pressed firmly up their noses.
See also:
- The 'global warming' storytellers have just revealed their hand
- The Dark Story Behind 'Man-Made Global Warming', Those Who Created it - And Why
- Anthropogenic global warming is a premeditated crime against science
- Your new BS detector kit: How to differentiate science from pseudoscience using 'global warming' as an example
- UN claims planet has only 12 years to avert chaos caused by debunked global warming
- 30 years ago global warming 'authorities' warned the Maldives would be swallowed by the Indian Ocean
- We just had two years of record-breaking cooling world-wide - don't try and tell the global warming people
- Talking sense: Leading Japanese scientist tells national audience focus should be global cooling, not warming
Update: The Mirror on 1st of February reported: