Outside in Chicago right now, the air feels like floating ice. Water freezes in midair before it hits the ground. And the entire landscape has such a frozen sharpness that, staring off my front porch this morning, I wouldn’t have been at all surprised to see a polar bear walking down my street.
The New York Times illustrates all of this in a few glanceable graphics, which are equal parts beautiful and informative. (But the graphics are only almost as cool as this picture of Chicago’s subzero Metra line forced to run on tracks of fire.)
Check out the full visual here.
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