• Terry Prather / The Ledger Independent via AP

    A motorist slipped off an icy road and went into the ditch in Maysville, Ky. on Jan. 21, 2011.

    Bitterly cold weather makes for dangerous driving conditions across the Midwest

    Msnbc.com staff and news services report:
    By 7 a.m. ET temperatures in the Chicago area had fallen as low as 2 degrees below zero with a wind chill of 19 degrees below, The Chicago Tribune reported.

    In the Twin Cities, The Star Tribune reported temperatures as frigid as 15 degrees below zero with no additional wind chill at 6:30 a.m. ET.

    And a major storm is looming for next week, said Alex Sosnowski, a meteorologist at AccuWeather.com.

    The storm was likely to roll across the Midwest and South, hitting the Atlantic Coast on Monday and Tuesday, where it will encounter the frigid air mass, he wrote on AccuWeather.com.

    Msnbc.com story: Brrrr! Snow hits Northeast while Midwest freezes

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  • Wu Hong / EPA

    A wide angle lens image showing scores of fishing boats seen blocked by sea ice at a port in rural Qingdao city, eastern China's Shandong province, Jan. 18.

    Iced in: Fishing boats blocked by sea ice in China

    By Elena Grothe

    EPA reports: China's National Marine Forecasting Station issued an alarm on Jan. 15 on sea ice as it was developing fast off the country's eastern coast due to the severe cold including Laizhou Bay, Liaodong Bay, Jiaozhou Bay, Bohai Bay and northern Yellow Sea.

  • A Haitian entrepeneur's unusual scheme for attracting attention to his food cart

    By John Brecher

    As pictures of Haiti's problems appear every day in our image feeds, it's refreshing to see this man's eccentric enterprise.

    JORGE SILVA / Reuters

    Pierre Dieuve, a shaved ice cone vendor, serves a customer in downtown Port-au-Prince. Dieuve attracts customers with telephone extensions in his cart, and listens to customers' orders through the headphones attached to his helmet.

    JORGE SILVA / Reuters

    Pierre Dieuve, a shaved ice cone vendor, pushes his cart in downtown Port-au-Prince.

  • Sculpting an ice bike in London

    By Mish Whalen

    The sculpture is part of the London Ice Sculpting Festival, a three day event that includes polar bear sculpting classes for the public and speed competitions for the professionals. 

    Matthew Lloyd / Getty Images

    A sculpted ice bike rests on a plinth in Canada Square Park in Canary Wharf on January 13, 2011 in London, England.

    Matthew Lloyd / Getty Images

    Sculptor Krisztian Pogany works on an ice bike in Canada Square Park in Canary Wharf on January 13, 2011 in London, England.

    Matthew Lloyd / Getty Images

    Sculptor Krisztian Pogany puts the finishing touches to an ice bike in Canada Square Park in Canary Wharf on January 13, 2011 in London, England.

  • Leak, fire at Indian ice plant

    By Mish Whalen

    According to Reuters: A huge fire broke out at an ice plant in eastern India after an ammonia gas leak and then spread to an adjacent cotton godown in Kolkata, local media reported on Monday.

    Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters

    People attempt to extinguish a fire at a cold storage unit in Kolkata on January 10, 2011.

    Piyal Adhikary / EPA

    Firefighters battle to extinguish a huge fire in an ice factory in India on January 10, 2010.

    Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters

    Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a cold storage unit in Kolkata on January 10, 2011.

    Firefighters struggled for four hours to contain the blaze. No injuries were reported. TODAYshow.com's Dara Brown reports.

  • How Hwee Young / EPA

    Tigers walking in the snowy Siberia Tiger Park in Harbin, northern Heilongjiang province, China, Jan. 7. The park is one of the largest breeding centers for the endangered Siberian tigers, making it a popular stop for tourists to Harbin attending the the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival.

    Into the great white open

    By Elena Grothe

    See our slideshow of wintry scenes here.

  • Freaky (and ornate) snow sculptures in China

    Sheng Li / Reuters

    A worker shapes a snow sculpture ahead of the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China, on Thursday, Dec. 23. The 27th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival will kick off on January 5, 2011

    Sheng Li / Reuters

    A worker installs lights on a snow sculpture before the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival on Thursday.

     
    By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com

    The top photo looks like an evil cross between a LEGO guy and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters.

    For more interesting weather pictures, check out our Winter Wonderland slideshow.

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