While the UK faces its coldest temperatures of the winter so far, in the US, Hell has literally frozen over.
Residents of Hell in Michigan have experienced temperatures as low as minus 26C (minus 14.8F), according to the National Weather Service, as northern states are gripped by the Polar Vortex.
According to a town Facebook page, they have not had as much snow as during other winters “but we are much colder.
“Yes, Hell has frozen over.”
Chicago could experience its lowest ever temperature on Thursday and drop below the minus 32C (minus 25.6F) recorded in 1985, according to the National Weather Service.
The Illinois city was colder than the Canadian village of Alert, one of the world’s most northerly inhabited places.
People have posted footage of the freezing weather on social media.
One man showed a t-shirt frozen solid and “stiff as a board” after hanging it outside on the railings of a balcony.
It’s a little cold in #Chiberia @barstoolWSD @barstoolcarl @RedLineRadio pic.twitter.com/jzhVQQnLAz
— Terry Greenbeans (@TerryGreenbeans) January 30, 2019
Meanwhile, a police force in Missouri asked people to “keep criminalling to a minimum” while the cold weather continues.
So…we are asking a favor (at least for the next three days); can you keep the criminalling to a minimum? It is REALLY…
Posted by Warrensburg Police Department on Monday, January 28, 2019
