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It looks like a scene from a disaster movie - a wall of destruction roaring towards and unprepared beach, with nothing but diminutive lifeguard towers in its way.
But this tsunami lookalike is actually harmless fog, caused by a rare combination of warm and cold air over the New Jersey shoreline.
The intimidating images, captured Sunday afternoon in Sea Girt, a town of less than 2,000, shows the ominous weather formation hovering just off the shore.
Movie scenes like this one are now part of our fantasies and nightmares:
The unforgettable scene from the film Deep Impact
See illustration explaining this phenomenon
But this New Jersey scene is nothing but a peaceful fog:
The New Jersey phenomenon is caused when warm air from inland hits the cold Atlantic, causing fog to form along the coast
Explainer: The National Weather Service posted this radar image
showing how the fog bank formed along the Jersey shore
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