A pierhead in Saint Joseph, MI was left covered in thick coatings of ice Friday after wintery conditions across the plains and Midwest.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — An arctic blast this week left an intricate frozen fingerprint behind in its wake.
The blowing spray off Lake Michigan, tossed by winds gusting to 47 mph, froze on contact with a beacon along a pier in St. Joseph.
Photographer Nathan Voytovick, of Nate’s Dronography, told Storyful he braved wind chills dropping as low as -10 degrees Friday to capture the surreal sight.
“The south pier beacon was fully covered in crazy looking ice,” he wrote on Facebook. “Seems like something from another planet!”
The sub-freezing winds were also responsible for hefty lake-effect snows that buried towns along the eastern shores of the Great Lakes with multiple feet of snow.