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The weather likes to throw some pretty spectacular curveballs every once in a while, from impressive thunder and lightning to blood rain and pancake ice. Now, mesmerizing footage has been recorded of a “fog tsunami” rolling over Lake Michigan.
The time-lapse video was recorded by South Haven-based photographer Scott Johnson, who suggested that a nearby thunderstorm east of the area had produced an outflow of cold air. This was combined with a dense layer of fog that was situated above Lake Michigan in the marine layer after cold water temperatures at the lake. When this cold outflow met that dense fog layer it lifted it, pushing it up into the giant fog wave that can be seen in the video.
The National Weather Service Grand Rapids warned on Thursday, May 15 that thunderstorms were expected along with strong winds and hail.
Elsewhere in the USA, a strange smelly fog was wafting over Florida earlier in the year, while foggy conditions can be the perfect time to spot “dark watchers” or even create your own.
