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Freeze! No, that wasn’t a command; that was an exclamation, you don’t actually need to freeze, pandas. If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere right now, you’re probably experiencing some crazy winter weather. And although 2023 was the Earth’s hottest year recorded in history, it still had its fair share of winter storms.

Even now, at the very beginning of 2024, we’re experiencing lots of snow and icy conditions. Just two weeks ago, CNN wrote about why we still have extremely cold weather when the planet warms to record levels.

One positive aspect of this worrisome trend is that this kind of weather can sometimes create some beautiful scenes out in nature and in our cities. That’s why we’re continuing our yearly trend of presenting you with lists of beautiful and sometimes chuckle-worthy pictures of winter doing its thing.

#1 Surfer After Riding Waves In Lake Superior During Polar Vortex

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#2 This Is Tony – Our 5’10” Terrain Parks Day Lead Extraordinaire. This Is Also The Snow Bank In C-Lot. How Many Feet (Or Tonys) Tall Do You Think It Is?

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#3 Here Is The Entrance To The Marketing Office

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#4 Flowers After An Ice Storm

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#5 Snow Removal In Montenegro, Durmitor Mountain, Mid April

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#6 Freshly Fallen Snow

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#7 Freezing Temperatures And Strong Winds Have Created Breathtaking Formations Of Ice In Lithuania’s Resort Town Nida

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#8 That’s A Whole Iceberg

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#9 Photos I Took In Port Stanley, Ontario Canada. Combination Of Severe Wind, Cold, Water And A Little Sand. The Base For Mother Nature’s Sculptures Was A Gate And Lamp Posts On A Pier

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#10 Home Depot Left The Sprinklers On Overnight In Freezing Weather

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#11 Cold Wave In Japan

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#12 Blizzard Blew Open The Pedestrian Door On My Garage

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#13 Sister’s Boyfriend Cracked An Egg On Our Front Porch. -28°C

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#14 Snowfall In Hokkaido, Northern Japan

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#15 Our Incredible “Iceman”, Shane Wolken, Has Taken The Challenge! A Photo Capturing This Brave Feat – Washing The Crane In Frigid Temperatures To Protect It From Long-Term Damage

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#16 I’m Up In Mammoth Now And The Amount Of Snow Here Is Amazing. This Is A Photo My Son Took From The Gondola Up To The Mountain Today

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#17 Frozen Snow Lift At Big White Ski Resort, British Columbia, Canada

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#18 Sent To Me By A Friend. Human For Scale

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#19 How About That For A Snow Depth?

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#20 The Way The Snow Melted Off My Porch

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#21 Whenever It Freezes This Happens To Our Spare Bedroom Windows

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#22 Accumulated Snow Depth Outside My House (Banana For Scale)

It’s more than 15 bananas high. I measured this morning. We’ll likely get a fair bit more snow, but it’s also starting to warm up a little in the daytime, so this is probably the maximum for this season. For those who still think in the old-fashioned measurement systems, it’s about 230 cm or 7 and a half feet.

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#23 Calgary, Alberta This Morning When It Was -30 Degrees

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#24 How Do I Start Clearing My Balcony Without Getting Snow All Over The Carpet

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#25 -50 Degrees In Yakutsk, Russia

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#26 I Used The Grill On Sunday Night, But I Lost It Now. Working On A Plan To Find It Today

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#27 Beers Freeze In -10-Degree Weather At The Chiefs Game

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#28 My Thermometer Has Bottomed Out. Actual Temperature Is -44°C

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#29 That’s 1/32 Of A Car

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#30 Why Bother With A Beer Glass When You Can Just Use Ice

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#31 That’s Frightening

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#32 Great Way To Measure Though

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#33 Right Down The Road From The Stadium & Still Projected 36 More Inches In The Next 24 Hours

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#34 Strange Ice Pattern On The Car After Driving Through A Blizzard

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#35 This Morning On PEI

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#36 Canadian Winter

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#37 This Snow Drift On The Side Of A Shed

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#38 Oh, Poor Buffalo Baby

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#39 It’s -36 Celsius In Finland Today

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#40 This Bug Stopped Part Of My Window From Freezing

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#41 First Winter In Canada. Had A Good 20 Min Walk In -30. Stay Safe Guys

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#42 A Picture Of St. John’s, NL, After The Snowstorm Yesterday

#43 Ice Sheet From A Leaf

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#44 You Wouldn’t Believe It, But This Is The Amount Of Snow We Had Here In Norway In 2 Days. Right Outside My Door

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#45 The Way The Snow On My Windshield Rolled Itself Up Like A Swiss Roll

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#46 Truck Got Stuck – Sylvan Lake

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#47 The Way The Snow Melted On This Pole

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#48 Newfoundland Snowbomb, 2020. (I Feared That If The Snow Completely Blocked The Outside World, My Children May Resort To Cannibalism When The Storm Chips Run Out)

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#49 California Snow

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#50 Found The Cars (Buffalo Storm, 2022)

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#51 This Ice Wheel In My Neighborhood

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#52 My Hair Even Froze

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#53 Hockey Tournament In Central Alberta. This Is The Door Of The Arena

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#54 These Frozen Webs

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#55 How It Started. How It’s Going After The Snowstorm In Lake Tahoe (California)

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#56 There’s Still A Little Bit Of Snow Piled Up At The Parents’ Place In California (Near Tahoe)

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#57 Ice Knight Hanging From My Gutter

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#58 I Took A Picture Of Myself At -38°C (-36.4°F)

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#59 Snow Through Recep Box

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#60 The Frost On My Car Window This Morning

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#61 The Way My Car Froze Today

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#62 -15°F Adventure (Eagle River, Alaska)

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#63 Geological Strata Of A Canadian Winter

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#64 Up Close Of A Shrub After An Ice Storm

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#65 The Amount Of Snow That Fell In Norway

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#66 We Are Still Digging Out

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#67 Rain And Ice Formed What Resembles A Fur Tree On The Side Of A Condo’s Roof

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#68 This Is The South Of Norway. We Had All The Snow Of The Whole Of Norway In The Space Of 4 Days! It’s Pretty Mental

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#69 This Rock Has A Frozen Tidemark

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#70 Flooded Campsite Frozen Solid

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#71 All The Bubbly Branded Seltzer Water Exploded In The Freezing Temperatures, But None Of The La Croix Did

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#72 This Winter The Snow Is Piled Taller Than The House In Canada

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#73 Picture I Took Of My Driveway During Day 2 Of Snowmageddon

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#74 It Got A Little Icy In My Neighborhood

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#75 Oulanka National Park, Finland (-23°C/-9°F)

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#76 When Chicago Streets Flood And Then Freeze, Your Car Gets Frozen Into The Ground, And You Need A Tow Truck To Yank Her Out. Good Times

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#77 My Mom In Orchard Park, NY, Has Gotten Just A Little Bit Of Snow This Weekend

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#78 Not Getting Out In A Hurry

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#79 That’s Some Heavy Snow

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#80 Look At All That Snow Near Donner Summit On I-80. Winter Storm Warning Tonight For 2-3 More Feet. Amazing Season In Sierra

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#81 When Water Pipes Burst In The Top Floor Apartment During Winter

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#82 Incredible

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#83 I Took A Picture Of Our Road On A Winter Night

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#84 The Way The Snow Accumulated On Our Steps

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#85 Record Snow Depth At Mammoth Last Year

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#86 I’m 6 Feet Tall For Reference

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#87 My Tires After A Bout Of Freezing Rain

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#88 The Current State Of My Bedroom Window. Why, Canada? Why?

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#89 This Tree After An Ice Storm In Illinois

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#90 Stuck In Snow

So, I’m currently stuck in the snow at the side of the road at the intersection between routes 1 and 201, 1.6km after Fosshotel Núpar. I have been stuck here for the past 2 hours, with road assistance telling us to wait as they have 4 other cars along the same route to rescue. They only have one guy who’s doing all the rescuing. 112 isn’t going to help unless our car rental company doesn’t help us. Is this normal in Iceland? There were tons of concerned tourists helping us out, but they just lacked the capability to do so. Is there stuff I could buy to help get out of such a situation? In Japan, people carry around a bag of gravel to pour behind tires to get cars unstuck. What’s the Icelandic solution?