US Polar Vortex: Stunning Photos of Icicles, Frozen Lakes and Ice 2014

Frozen mist from Niagara Falls coats the landscape at Niagara Falls state park. Photograph: James Neiss/AP

January Polar Vortex or Arctic Air caused very cold wind and freezing temperature across the North America killing at least 9 people.

Icicles form on a fountain in Augusta, Georgia. Photograph: Michael Holahan/ZUMA Press/Corbis

Ice balls take over Lake Michigan. Image credit to Huffpost Green.

Below are more stunning photos of the extreme weather.

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A beachfront is covered in ice in Chicago, Illinois, January 8, 2014. A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades-old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people. REUTERS/Jim Young

A man walks along a snow covered beach in Chicago, Illinois, January 8, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young.

Ice and ice flows on the Canadian and US water falls at Niagara Falls, in the State of New York, USA, on January 9, 2014 following the recent cold weather that has moved across the United States midwest and northeast. (EPA/RICK WARNE)

Ice covers rocks and brush on the break wall at Edgewater Park in Cleveland Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014. An official low of -11 degrees broke the 130-year-old record for the date as cold polar air spread from the Midwest to southern and eastern parts of the U.S. and eastern Canada. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Weather Channel producer Shawn Reynolds tweeted this incredible photo taken by pilot Hank Cain of a tundra-like Chicago,

And here’s what all that ice and cold tomfoolery looks like up close. (AP Photo/Andrew A. Nelles)

A beachfront is covered in ice in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The Chicago skyline and a freezing Lake Michigan are seen from the Museum Campus in Chicago on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. Sunday night temperatures will drastically drop to about minus 20 degrees. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

This is what the lighthouse in Saint Joseph, Michigan looks like on Jan 7, 2014. Image credit to Huffington Post.

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