The deep freeze has hit the US (Picture: Reuters)

Temperatures have plummeted so low in the US this week, a bone-tingling -38.3C in Minnesota, that some are finding it ‘painful to breathe’.

Amazingly, even the town of Hell in Michigan has frozen over, while temperatures colder than Mars have also been recorded.

Here is a collection of ten extraordinary pictures and videos of the US deep freeze:

10. It’s cold


Water sprayed by firefighters froze after this building caught fire in Nebraska (Picture: AP /Nati Harnik)

9. Frozen hotel

8. Boiling water

7. Ice waterfall

Great pics of this morning's frozen fountains and beautiful sunrise in #Houston; Slideshow -> http://t.co/mY5HUdD5HU pic.twitter.com/mvx5I78aWq — KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) January 7, 2014

6. Lake Michigan

Ice builds up along Lake Michigan (Picture: Getty)

5. Frozen T-shirt

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4. Banana

3. Frozen toilet

2. Chicago subway

1. Water gun