The unexpected five-to-nine inches of snow that fell east of Lincoln and west of Champaign, encompassing a very small sphere of central Illinois, held up the up-and-down temperatures the first few weeks of the year. 

Chris Miller at the National Weather Service in Lincoln says the snow and ice resulted in very dense fog and cloud cover across that portion of central Illinois for about a week. 

According to Miller, the week ahead is looking at temperatures consistently in the lower-to-middle 30s for central Illinois.