Beach at Point Betsie, Two Below, photo by John Clement Howe.

John took this photo in yesterday's blizzard at Point Betsie (also the photo to the right which you can see bigger if you click it!) He writes:

Benzie County, Michigan, 1-30-08 - High winds, snow and sub-zero temperatures created near white-out conditions and severe wind chills following two days of thaw weather here. This was the view of the Lake Michigan beach near Point Betsie.

One day can make all the difference: according to the Weather Underground, Manistee's high on January 30, 2008 was 8 degrees (low of zero) with winds up to 44 MPH driving wind chills up to 22 below zero. Just the day before there was a record high of 44 degrees!