The polar vortex brought life-threatening frigid temperatures, ... WGN-TV Chicago's chief meteorologist Tom Skilling said Lake Michigan, in particular, was quite a spectacle.

Lake County residents who have taken a meteorological beating over the past week or so can breathe a bit easier: Significantly warmer weather is heading in, and officials aren’t expecting any ...

Sea smoke, the result of extremely cold air blowing over warmer water, rises from Lake Michigan in Chicago, Jan. 30, 2019. The deadly cold front was tied to a misshapen Arctic polar vortex.

A polar vortex has brought deadly temperatures to the Midwest this week, ... Lake Michigan's ice coverage is impressive, as these pictures show, but it's still far from breaking a record.

Lake Michigan and Chicago pictured. EPA. ... While most polar vortex forecasts are often unpredictable, Fox Weather said this round of cold is different. “This is a very highly confident forecast.

Polar vortex patterns can be stubborn and linger longer than a typical cold snap. This means that while January will start off brutally cold with rounds of snow in the East, the West could see a ...

WATCH: Polar Vortex brings visual vortex to Lake Hefner by: Kaylee Douglas/KFOR. Posted: Feb 15, 2021 / 10:49 PM CST. ... a steam vortex could be seen rising off of Lake Hefner Monday.

The polar vortex spins anticlockwise around the North Pole with wind speeds of about 155mph (250km/h). ... 2014, marking the highest ice coverage ever recorded for this Great Lake.

Buffalo's wintry blasts in October 2006, November 2014 and November 2022 were all examples of pieces of a weakened polar vortex falling farther than usual from the Arctic, he said, where the ...

A lobe of the polar vortex has shifted off the polar region and moved abnormally far south over the Great Lakes. ... heavy lake effect. Published: Jan. 30, 2019, 11:20 a.m. By .

SALT LAKE CITY — Cities across the U.S. are bracing for cold temperatures as a polar vortex arrives, bringing temperatures down to much below normal for mid-to-late January. Parts of Utah are on ...