Sea Smoke Flows Over Lake Superior in Michigan
Sea smoke flowed across Lake Superior near Michigan on Tuesday, December 26. The air temperatures were much colder than Lake Superior’s water temperature, creating the phenomenon off the coast of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
The air temperature was -10 degrees while the water temperature was 38 degrees, a post on the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Facebook page said. “With such a difference in temperature, the warmer condensation above the lake mixed with the cold air from the land and created sea smoke,” the post read.
The National Weather Service said temperatures in Michigan’s upper peninsula have been colder than in Alaska. Ironwood’s Christmas Day high temperature was the coldest since 1933, the weather service said. The -2 degrees high in Marquette is the third time a sub-zero temperature was recorded in December since records began in 1961, the NWS said. Credit: National Park Service via Storyful
