But with temperatures still remaining well below freezing, the impromptu lake has started freezing over making for a mix of water and ice chunks. Cars were getting stuck trying to drive through the ...

The lobes of the Polar Vortex bring a blast of Arctic air and then usually a day or two of widespread lake-effect snow. That’s what the weather pattern shows for Michigan in the next week.

The cold temperatures are coming from a not uncommon expansion in the Polar Vortex, which are counter-clockwise rotating air currents that typically hang over the Arctic.