So remember that 2004 film called The Day After Tomorrow?
The one where Dennis Quaid, aka paleoclimatologist Jack Hall, goes on a cross-country trip to save his son (a younger Jake Gyllenhal) from a storm that throws the world into a new Ice Age?
Well…polar vortex anyone? I mean, when meteorologists are warning that exposed human flesh will freeze in a matter of seconds — shit is getting real.
Seriously…these negative 40 temperatures are clearly an indication that the worst is about to happen. And we have definitive proof that the weather phenomenons that occur in the movie are happening now.
Because this…
Is this…
The Chicago skyline, as seen yesterday from the icy shores of Lake Michigan http://t.co/3IJFzMZ7yp pic.twitter.com/8wJXcPJR1t
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) January 7, 2014
And this…
Is clearly this…
(ice on the inside! What is this madness?!)
And this…
I mean…identical, right?
What Chicago looks like under ice, thanks to the #PolarVortex http://t.co/lpIoUfxfxv pic.twitter.com/CQ3jLXinyK
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) January 7, 2014
Look at this…
Now look at this…
So basically…
It’s the end of the world…
The Chicago skyline is seen beyond the arctic sea smoke rising off Lake Michigan, USA #PolarVortex #EarthPics pic.twitter.com/iR4nFGq7oj
— Google Earth Pics (@GoogleEarthPics) January 7, 2014
At least the water is frozen and this won’t happen any time soon…
PHOTO CREDIT: Giphy, Screengrab, Getty
