A video of Chicago from above shows just how stunning the Windy City looks amid the Arctic blast that has smashed 300 temperature records and left 232 million people shivering Wednesday morning.
Aerial footage posted Monday captured the city’s recognizable skyscrapers with the ground below coated in frost.
An image from Twitter drew attention to areas by the coast that were completely blanketed in inches of snow as it was forecast that by Thursday morning, the Mid-Atlantic region to Maine could suffer record-low temperatures.
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Lake Michigan waves crash over a retaining wall, flooding parts of the Lakefront Trail near East 67th Street in Chicago on Tuesday
Another photograph shared on social media showed the Lake covered in ice and tree branches coated in the white stuff
Lake Michigan frozen in the Arctic Blast was a stunning sight and many social media users shared shots of the water
At least 300 daily mid-November cold records, including record lows and record-cold high temperatures, have been set across the US since Veterans Day
One social media user captioned a picture: ‘Icy, windy, wavy.. wouldn’t want to slip and fall here’
A Twitter user shared a snap of Lake Michigan at dusk. In the shot railings were covered in icicles and the water appeared to be frozen over
But the cool glimpse of Chicago came on the same day a plane landing at O’Hare International Airport slid across the runway. No one was injured.
More than 1,400 flights at O’Hare and Midway International Airport were canceled after more than 3 inches of snow fell Monday and on Wednesday 150 more flights were cancelled.
Veterans Day’s record low was a chilly 13 degrees but hundreds of daily mid-November cold records were smashed as the country.
Some of the records dated back to 1911, meteorologists said.
On Tuesday afternoon the record-low high was a brutal 17 degrees in Chicago, beating the previous record of 28 degrees from 1995, according to Weather.com.
An image from Twitter drew attention to areas by the coast that were completely blanketed in inches of snow
A 46 degree water temperature didn’t stop one surfer from catching a wave at Silver Beach on Lake Michigan. The surfer is seen on video above
Lake Michigan frozen in the Arctic Blast
Images that day showed Lake Michigan waves crash over a retaining wall and flooding parts of the Lakefront Trail near East 67th Street in Chicago.
A Twitter user shared a snap of Lake Michigan at dusk. In the shot railings were covered in icicles and the water appeared to be frozen over.
Another photograph shared on social media showed the Lake covered in ice and tree branches coated in the white stuff.
‘South Wind has Lake Michigan rolling today,’ one man tweeted about the waves.
One social media user captioned their picture: ‘Icy, windy, wavy.. wouldn’t want to slip and fall here.’
In Chicago an 80-year-old man died from cardiovascular disease with cold exposure, police said.
It wasn’t the only Midwest tragedy as a 21-year-old woman died in a 16-car pile-up crash in Ohio’s heavy snow, CNN reported.
But even the 46 degree water temperature didn’t stop a surfer from catching a wave at Silver Beach on Lake Michigan.
He was seen riding the surf and at one point taking a crash that was sure to make him shiver.
People braving the cold shared their images of Lake Michigan frozen amid the Arctic Blast that has come early
The arctic cold was producing heavy lake effect snow along Lake Michigan, dumping heavy snow on parts of northern Indiana. The highest snowfall total as of Tuesday morning was 10.6 inches near the city of Goshen.
As well as setting record single-digit temperatures in Chicago, the mid-autumn taste of winter set snowfall records in Buffalo and Detroit; dusted cars with snow in Memphis, Tennessee; and froze lakes in Minnesota weeks earlier than usual.
‘This is an air mass that’s more typical for the middle of January than mid-November,’ National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist Kevin Birk said in Chicago, where Tuesday morning’s low of 7 degrees broke the previous record of 8, set in 1986. ‘It is pretty much about the coldest we can be this time of year.’
The National Weather Service reported that Wednesday afternoon more record-low highs were seen in; Binghamton (21 degrees) and Albany, New York (26 degrees), Hartford, Connecticut (32 degrees), Providence, Rhode Island (32 degrees), Boston (33 degrees), Newark, New Jersey (35 degrees), Roanoke, Virginia (37 degrees), Charleston, South Carolina (47 degrees), and Savannah, Georgia (50 degrees).