New York’s ice-choked East River—seen from Pier 1 Playground in Brooklyn—is evidence of the extraord

New York’s ice-choked East River—seen from Pier 1 Playground in Brooklyn—is evidence of the extraordinary cold temperatures gripping much of the central and eastern United States this week. Video of the scene shows the frigid water moving at a surreal and unexpected speed.

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How a Giant Underground Air Conditioner Supplies Zermatt With Snow

How a Giant Underground Air Conditioner Supplies Zermatt With Snow

Ski season and crap tons of snow don’t always coincide with one another in the way resorts would like. That means they have to use the power of machines to manufacture snow. The resort of Zermatt, Switzerland, does that on a polar vortex-like scale, thanks to 1,000 machines pumping out 7 megawatts of power for oodles of artificial fresh powder.

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Shooting Challenge: POLAR VORTEX

Shooting Challenge: POLAR VORTEX

We’ve all heard. The Polar Vortex Part II: Vortex Returns is coming. And the best way to suffer through this frigid end of the world is to grab it by the snowballs and make some art.

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A frozen Niagara Falls light show looks like a magical wonderland

A frozen Niagara Falls light show looks like a magical wonderland

Niagara Falls is always powerfully beautiful. A frozen Niagara Falls is even more impressive, like pressing pause on nature to hear the silence. A frozen Niagara Falls filled with colors from a light show? Just look. Photographer Michael Muraz showed us these amazing images of Niagara Falls and the frozen colors make it look like a wonderland.

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How snow machines create snow for the Winter Olympics

Sochi, Russia, the host city of next month’s Winter Olympics, is nothing close to cold right now. The temperature hovers at a very mild 55 degrees which means it’s very far from freezing which means it’s very far from snowing. But. Like. Um. You kind of need snow to host a Winter Olympics. So Sochi enlisted the help of snow machines to get man made snow spewed for the games.

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Awesome guy built a colorful ice fortress because winter was coming

Awesome guy built a colorful ice fortress because winter was coming

Winter is no fun, especially when it comes too soon or overstays its welcome. How can you make it more enjoyable? By being awesome like Chris Marchand who decided to turn snow into snowlemonade (snowade? water?) by making a beautiful and colorful ice wall fortress in his yard. Look at it. It glows.

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Metronomy Reminds Us That We’d Rather Be in San Francisco Right Now

Early Wednesday morning, an odd fog descended upon New York City, hugging the buildings and obscuring the ground. For those of us who’ve spent some time in the Bay Area, it was hard not to imagine we were snuggling in between San Francisco’s steep hills rather than thumping through the gridlock of Gotham.

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8 Otherworldly Songs Performed On Instruments Made Of Ice

8 Otherworldly Songs Performed On Instruments Made Of Ice

We’re smack-dab in the middle of winter and baby, it’s cold outside (or so I’ve heard; I live over in LOL). I imagine that it might be tough to find the beauty in yet another day of sub-zero temperatures, but for some enterprising creative types, bone-chilling frost is more than a major nuisance—it’s the stuff that musical dreams are made of.

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We Sure Watched a Lot of Porn During This Week’s Deep Freeze

We Sure Watched a Lot of Porn During This Week's Deep Freeze

Baby, it’s cold outside. But wait… You don’t have anybody to keep you warm? That’s what porn is for.

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Niagara Falls Isn’t Frozen—But It’s Getting There, And It’s Beautiful

Niagara Falls Isn't Frozen—But It's Getting There, And It's Beautiful

It’s probably one of the most amazing wonders of mother nature. Because of the severe cold weather, huge ice formations are starting to take shape along Niagara Falls—the American side—and the result is an incredible landscape of bubbling, whirling ice.

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