Clearing the fog about Friday's strange weather
If you were downtown Friday night, chances are you weren't seeing too well. And it wasn't just along Chippewa Street.
It was caused by your common variety fog, not surprising for a city built on a lake, but rare enough that people take notice.
Over at Dunn Tire Park, the Bisons were leading 1-0 in the top of the ninth, ready to take a victory over Scranton, when a normally catchable fly ball scored a run. When the fog grew worse, and the leftfielder could no longer see home plate, the game was called with two out and the scored tied, 1-1 in the bottom of the ninth.
Meteorologist Dave Sage at the Buffalo office of the National Weather Service said the fog was caused by warm lake temperatures and cooler readings over land.
"Sometimes we get a marine layer off Lake Erie," Sage said. "The lake is up to 70 degrees. If you cool down into the 60s, the whole layer along the lakeshore becomes saturated with that layer."
Cue the fog machine. A bit of a wind, and it rolls right in.
By dawn, the fog cleared and the Bisons on Saturday afternoon resumed their game. They won it, 2-1.
-- Michael Beebe
