Overview
- New photo galleries published Dec. 30–31 show the St. Joseph North Pier and Outer Light coated in ice after high winds, large waves, and snow.
- MLive senior photographer Joel Bissell documented the aftermath at Tiscornia Park on Tuesday as conditions calmed.
- Wind-shaped icicles lined the pier catwalk and railings, and a solid glaze covered the Outer Lighthouse.
- Inches-thick ice accumulated on tall grass and shrubs along the St. Joseph River channel, while gusts sculpted frozen sand formations on the beach bluff.
- Coverage places the local transformation within a broader regional cold outbreak that followed a bomb cyclone, with the National Weather Service warning of gust-driven chill.