By — Lorna Baldwin Lorna Baldwin Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-wall-dense-fog-creep-across-lake-michigan Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Watch a wall of dense fog creep across Lake Michigan Nation May 22, 2014 6:16 PM EDT Two fishermen on Lake Michigan caught more than a big fish yesterday. On camera, they captured a massive fog bank making its way across the lake. Andrew Ballard and his father Spencer were out for a leisurely day of fishing near Platte Bay, just south of the Sleeping Bear Dunes, when the weather phenomenon came at them. “The wind was about 20 mph, the waves got bigger and the temperature really dropped. Visibility dropped to about 30 feet, and you lost direction,” Ballard told The Detroit News. The National Weather Service describes it as advection fog — when warm, moist air moves horizontally over a cold surface. The Ballards eventually made it back to shore but had to rely on their GPS to get them there. Here’s a view of the same fog bank taken from Manistee, Michigan. REMARKABLE cloud photo taken yesterday in Manistee by Rochelle Arnold Sam! #ItsAmazingOutThere #PureMichigan pic.twitter.com/wJp3QwHUwz — Pure Michigan (@PureMichigan) May 22, 2014 We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now By — Lorna Baldwin Lorna Baldwin Lorna Baldwin is an Emmy and Peabody award winning producer at the PBS NewsHour. In her two decades at the NewsHour, Baldwin has crisscrossed the US reporting on issues ranging from the water crisis in Flint, Michigan to tsunami preparedness in the Pacific Northwest to the politics of poverty on the campaign trail in North Carolina. Farther afield, Baldwin reported on the problem of sea turtle nest poaching in Costa Rica, the distinctive architecture of Rotterdam, the Netherlands and world renowned landscape artist, Piet Oudolf. @lornabaldwin
Two fishermen on Lake Michigan caught more than a big fish yesterday. On camera, they captured a massive fog bank making its way across the lake. Andrew Ballard and his father Spencer were out for a leisurely day of fishing near Platte Bay, just south of the Sleeping Bear Dunes, when the weather phenomenon came at them. “The wind was about 20 mph, the waves got bigger and the temperature really dropped. Visibility dropped to about 30 feet, and you lost direction,” Ballard told The Detroit News. The National Weather Service describes it as advection fog — when warm, moist air moves horizontally over a cold surface. The Ballards eventually made it back to shore but had to rely on their GPS to get them there. Here’s a view of the same fog bank taken from Manistee, Michigan. REMARKABLE cloud photo taken yesterday in Manistee by Rochelle Arnold Sam! #ItsAmazingOutThere #PureMichigan pic.twitter.com/wJp3QwHUwz — Pure Michigan (@PureMichigan) May 22, 2014 We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now