{"id":109511,"date":"2026-02-09T23:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109511\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:16:24","slug":"lake-erie-ice-fracture-time-lapse-shows-80-mile-crack-form-across-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109511\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Erie Ice Fracture: Time-lapse shows 80-mile crack form across lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/rhn65os7yhkvqhyb.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Erie ice crack forms across surface\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/video\/fmc-2gz3jlkg8utztvlr\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Erie ice crack forms across surface<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">NOAA posted a time-lapse of a massive 80-mile-long fracture of surface ice over Lake Erie on Feb. 8. It stretched from Port Burwell, Canada to Cleveland, Ohio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">(FOX 2) &#8211; Ice on the Great Lakes has made a show of itself this winter; just ask the region&#8217;s research lab that tracks its ice coverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The system is well above its seasonal average with approximately 50% of the entire Great Lakes covered with ice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Ice cover can influence weather all around the system, as well as expand opportunities for fishing, snow mobiling, and even accessing some of Michigan&#8217;s more remote destinations.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Over the weekend, satellite coverage over Lake Erie showed another eye-popping visual: an 80-mile-long fracture across the lake, stretching from Canada to Ohio.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">A time-lapse of the fracture forming was shared by NOAA, revealing the crack from Port Burwell, Canada to Cleveland, Ohio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: NOAA was cited for this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/us\/mi\/great-lakes\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Great Lakes<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lake Erie ice crack forms across surface NOAA posted a time-lapse of a massive 80-mile-long fracture of surface&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,262,2160,139,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-109511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news","11":"tag-great-lakes","12":"tag-mi","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}