In a matter of a week, Lake Balaton slipped from one extreme to the other: before Christmas, you could shoot sundowns worthy of summer evenings, and now KIng Winter has thrones in almost every Balaton town.

The cold also caught the attention of the Hungarian News Agency

These photos were also shot by one of the MTI crew

The weather site, idokep.hu created an ice timelapse

Idokep users uploaded photos from Balatonberény and Balatonfenyves

From Balatonőszöd...

Fonyód...

and Balatonszemes.

This is the wildest one

Instagram was neither spared

And it looks like this from above

UPDATE: more Instagram pics