The ‘Big Apple’ in the grip of the Big Cold

The Big Apple frozen like never before in half a century: three weeks after the last snowfall, New York still retains its unusual Siberian landscape. The extraordinary series of more than ten days below zero with arctic peaks of -17 produced a rare effect: it kept the snow in Central Park intact, a phenomenon that had not been recorded for so long in decades and which experts consider another consequence of climate change.

In New York, generally, the effects of snowfall lasted three-four days, a week at most, no more than twenty days. Not only that: the Reservoir dedicated to Jacqueline Kennedy, the large lake inside the Manhattan park, is still frozen, to the point of having also put the survival of the fauna that populates the lake to the test. These images were shot on Saturday, February 14th. The snow and ice have remained there, unchanged, since January 24th.