Eerie sight: Bitter cold transforms Michigan lighthouse into 'ice monster'

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ST JOSEPH, MI - A lensman was greeted with a unsocial show arsenic a Michigan lighthouse transformed into an "ice monster" owed to bitter acold temperatures.

In a Facebook post, Nathan Voytovick shared video of an unthinkable show — what appears to beryllium dozens of curved icicles hanging connected a lighthouse beacon.

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The video shows St. Joseph pier covered successful a heavy furniture of crystal connected Monday. Temperatures successful the country are presently successful the teens, with lows successful the azygous digits.

"Looking up astatine the crystal monster this morning," Voytovick said successful a Facebook post. "Is it weird that I consciousness intimidated? FEET of coagulated crystal already."

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Much of the state is being impacted by a polar vortex that is bringing single-digit temperatures to the Midwest and eastbound U.S.

More than 70 cardinal Americans are nether Cold Weather Alerts, successful what the FOX Forecast Center said could extremity up being the coldest time of the twelvemonth erstwhile considering upwind chills.

POLAR VORTEX BLANKETS EASTERN US WITH DANGEROUS ARCTIC AIR AS NEARLY TWO DOZEN STATES FEEL EXTREME BLAST

The bitter arctic aerial volition linger into Tuesday, peculiarly successful the Northern Tier, earlier a speedy lukewarm up by midweek.

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