{"id":63313,"date":"2014-01-09T18:46:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=63313"},"modified":"2014-01-09T18:46:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:46:26","slug":"spectacular-photographs-show-the-moment-niagara-falls-froze-in-polar-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=63313","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular photographs show the moment Niagara Falls FROZE in polar vortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Niagara-Falls1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-63311\" alt=\"\u057d\u0561\u057c\u0561\u056e,\u0546\u056b\u0561\u0563\u0561\u0580\u0561 \u057b\u0580\u057e\u0565\u056a\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Niagara-Falls1.jpg\" width=\"964\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Niagara-Falls1.jpg 964w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Niagara-Falls1-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Niagara-Falls1-470x300.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The record-breaking chill across the U.S. and Canada was so frigid it literally stopped Niagara Falls in its tracks.<\/p>\n<p>A collection of spectacular photographs have shown the moment the U.S. side of the famous falls froze before they could reach the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the freezing air and &#8216;polar vortex&#8217; that turned the cascading water to ice &#8211; and affected about 240 million people in the U.S. and southern Canada &#8211; will depart during the second half of this week, and a far-reaching January thaw will begin, according to AccuWeather.com.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday was a day of record-setting cold in Niagara, with the mercury bottoming out at a chilling -2F. Combined with the wind chills, it felt like -20F.<\/p>\n<p>One would think the icy cold would keep tourists away, but those who enjoy taking photos rugged up to snap the conditions, producing exceptional images they wouldn&#8217;t otherwise have an opportunity to capture.<\/p>\n<p>The natural wonder should be looking more like itself come Saturday when temperatures are forecast to be in the 50s, according to Environment Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The record-breaking chill across the U.S. and Canada was so frigid it literally stopped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":63311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,155,137],"tags":[5488,5487,5486],"class_list":["post-63313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-froze","tag-niagara-falls","tag-spectacular-photographs","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}