Colder Than Mars Edition
Photograph by Bill Alkofer
Polar Plunge in California.
Long Beach Polar Plunge:
Air temperature 82.8 F (wind chill 80)
Water temp. 59 F
Brrrr.
GIF by Andy King
Photograph by Bill Alkofer
Dylan Rodenski bundles up in his winter coat to keep warm at the Newport Beach pier in California as the morning temperature plummeted to 58 degrees (above zero).
"I know that Christmas is over, but this the warmest hat I have," Rodenski said.
Photograph by Craig Lassig
Patrick O'Brien aka Spiderman went for a run in 14 degrees below zero weather as an arctic air mass brings "dangerously low temperatures" today in Minneapolis.
Photograph by Craig Lassig
James Schlafer of Minneapolis dressed warm for his daily four to five mile walk.
Photograph by Craig Lassig
Water still runs in Minneapolis.
Photograph by Tom Olmscheid
Since Janine will have endure the extreme elements next Vikings season, outside at TCF Stadium, she thought it might be a good to have a trial run of all of her cold weather gear. So on went the flannel lined pants , turtleneck, jacket, snowmobile suit, boots, gloves, hat and of course the Peterson jersey and her Vikings horns. With temperature at -8 degrees and the wind chill a -32 degrees she didn't last to long watching the Packers-49ers game on a stool outside the house.
Photograph by Craig Lassig
Diana Schlafer of Minneapolis said the cold weather doesn't bother her.
Photograph by Tom Olmscheid
Ice covers the outside of a grocery and apartments in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood after an explosion and fire. Three people died and fourteen people were injured in the flames.
Photograph by Tom Olmscheid
A mural is coated with ice from the water that put out the fire at a grocery and apartment building in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.
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