Chicago On Ice

Last calendar week temperatures inwards Chicago cruel every bit depression every bit -30 degrees every bit the polar vortex affected temperatures across large areas of the United States. According to NOAA this mutual depression temperature weather condition has caused well-nigh 50% of Lake Michigan to freeze over.

Asa Strong has used Planet to practise a adjacent comparing of Chicago every bit seen from the air inwards Dec as well as inwards January. The Chicago on Ice comparing consists of 2 aerial images of the city. In the correct manus paradigm you lot tin strength out run into the impact that the polar vortex has had on Chicago, amongst the urban marrow covered inwards a blanket of snowfall as well as Lake Michigan covered yesteryear ice.


NOAA has released a satellite paradigm showing 'cloud streets' streaming across the Great Lakes. These cloud streets are caused when the warmer temperatures caught inwards the Great Lakes rises as well as hits the mutual depression temperature air above. This causes wet to condense into cumulus clouds. These cooling clouds hence sink dorsum to the lake level. This rising as well as sinking displace creates this 'cloud street' resultant that has been seen over the Great Lakes inwards this mutual depression temperature weather.

Here's what those cloud street looks like, every bit seen inwards a video captured yesteryear a local newscaster:



You tin strength out persuasion to a greater extent than recent satellite imagery of Lake Michigan on NOAA's MODIS Imagery pages.