Ghost-Like Ice-Covered Ship Heads Into Minnesota

If you had any doubt that our weather the past week has been cold, take a look at this footage from earlier this week along Minnesota's North Shore.

In this video, taken along the harbor up in Duluth earlier this week, shows a massive ship, The Great Lakes Trader, steaming into port to load up on iron ore pellets.

Okay, the ship itself isn't actually a steamer, but check out all the cool 'sea smoke' that's coming off the water. ('Sea smoke,' as the sailors call it, is caused when the air temperature drops well below the temperature of the water in Lake Superior, and steam is given off.)

This isn't the first time 'sea smoke' as been observed in Minnesota, of course. Earlier in January, during last winter's bitter cold snap, the same phenomenon occurred. (Check out what it looked like HERE.)

But the rising steam, coupled with all that ice that had accumulated on the mighty ship's bow does make it look kinda creepy, (and almost ghost-like) doesn't it?