Drivers be warned: Fog could reduce visibility this morning

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CiaDPnLiHSs?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Roads are a mess: Clinton Hameline, of Precision Lawncare in Flint, spent the morning today plowing the parking lots of automotive suppliers in Sterling Heights.</span><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">From: </span><a href="http://www.freep.com/">http://www.freep.com</a><br /><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">Fog in southeast Michigan could drop visibility to a quarter-mile, the National Weather Service said this morning. </div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">The fog is expected to last until about 11 a.m.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">About 16,000 DTE customers were without power at 9 a.m., according to the company. DTE reported 13,000 customers without power overnight, which dipped to 1,000 customers as of 6 a.m., according to DTE. </div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">A mix of snow and freezing rain closed hundreds of <span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p" style="border: 0px; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; white-space: nowrap !important;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook0w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; bottom: auto; color: #009900; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: underline !important; top: auto; white-space: normal;">schools</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook0icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="border: 0px !important; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline !important; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span> and left roads a mess early today, but a warm spell is in store for metro Detroit today and Tuesday.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"></div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">All winter weather advisories and warnings ended at 6 a.m, according to the National Weather Service. But icy road conditions closed school across metro Detroit, including the Detroit Public Schools, Eastern Michigan University and many others. Classes at EMU are scheduled to resume as scheduled at 12:30 p.m.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">“Temperatures are climbing above freezing, so it’s over now,” National Weather Service meteorologist Mike Richter said from the agency’s White Lake Township office just after 6 a.m. “We’re going to have a nice warming trend – nice but brief.”</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">The storm left 13,000 DTE Energy customers without power overnight, but service was restored to all but about 1,000 by 6 a.m. today, DTE spokesman Scott Simons said.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">Simons also said that a substation problem in Waterford this morning is responsible for an outage affecting about 6,000 people.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">The ice and snow is expected to start melting today as temperatures rise to the mid- to upper-40s by this afternoon, Richter said. The expected high is 47 degrees, with a 50% to 60% chance of rain this morning, increasing to a 70% chance of rain tonight and all day Tuesday. Tonight’s low will only drop to 43 degrees before temperatures soar to 57 degrees on Tuesday with a 90% chance of rain, Richter said.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">“Normal high is 32, so you’re talking 25 degrees above normal in late January,” Richter said. “That is impressive.”</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">Temperatures then dive back down starting on Wednesday, when a high around 48 becomes a low of 22 Wednesday night. Thursday’s high is only expected to be 24 degrees – with an overnight low of 12 then a high on Friday of 19 degrees, he added.</div></div>

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