'Whiteout' Over Great Lakes Seen from Space (Photo)

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 15:30 in Earth & Climate

The five Great Lakes, in all their glory, barely peak out from the veil of clouds and whooshing snowfall above them in a new satellite image captured Monday (Jan. 6) as the Arctic's polar vortex barreled southward.

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