fogland, photo by Boston Wolverine.
Sam says that Sunday’s warmup caused very thick, very low, very persistent fog.
All across the state we’ve seen a remarkable warming, pretty much erasing snow in southern Michigan and severely diminishing snow cover in the northern parts. Regarding the phenomenon of the “January Thaw”, the Weather Doctor writes:
The January Thaw, which usually occurs during the third week of January across the Great Lakes/St Lawrence Valley, New England and the Maritime Provinces, holds a place in North American weather lore nearly as prominent as Autumn’s Indian Summer. And as far as I can determine, it is unique to this continent…
The January Thaw, according to the 1954 Glossary of Meteorology published by the American Meteorological Society, is:
“A period of mild weather, popularly supposed to recur each year in late January in New England and other parts of the northeastern United States….Statistical tests show a high probability that it is a real singularity.”
A singularity is a meteorological condition that tends to occur on or near a specific calendar date more frequently than chance would indicate. Read more from The Weather Doctor Almanac and also see the entry for thaw (and January thaw) from Wikipedia.
Michigan in Pictures 
I thought the January Thaw was the most greatest thing we ever had! I did really enjoyed it, and I loved it. We got up to 61 degrees! I took my dogs for a walk two times. If only if we had sunshine, it would of been perfect! It was all cloudy that time, but I really didn’t care. But I did enjoyed it very much! I hope we gets the January Thaw again next year, with sun and warmer temperatures.
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