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.

Icicles amassed on a pier in St Joseph, Michigan, on Saturday, on November 30, as freezing winds from a polar vortex brought bitter cold to the Lake Michigan region. Footage filmed by Nathan ...

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.

the 2013-14 polar vortex resulted in 92.5 percent of the Great Lakes being covered in ice, the second most extensive ice cover observed via satellite. Lake Michigan’s surface froze to an ...

The polar vortex is coming back ... Flagstaff, Arizona; Salt Lake City; Boise, Idaho; Denver. – The following places east of the Rocky Mountains can expect accumulating snow and/or ice this ...

FILE - A person walks along the shore of ice covered Lake Michigan, Feb. 13, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) ...

Lake Michigan and Chicago pictured ... adding that the Southeast could even see snow or ice. While most polar vortex forecasts are often unpredictable, Fox Weather said this round of cold is ...

Luckily, Chicago has a ringer on its side — its east side: Lake Michigan ... of the Lakefront trail next to The Playpen, as a polar vortex brought frigid temperatures to the Chicago area ...