{"id":110260,"date":"2026-02-10T18:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/110260\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:29:29","slug":"video-drone-video-shows-80-mile-long-crack-on-frozen-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/110260\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Drone video shows 80-mile-long crack on frozen Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Drone<\/a> <\/p>\n

Drone video captured an 80-mile-long crack that developed on frozen Lake Erie, which was visible from space. According to NOAA, the fracture stretched from Port Burwell, Ontario, to near Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n

PAINESVILLE, Ohio \u2013 Drone<\/a> video captured an 80-mile-long crack that developed on frozen Lake Erie earlier this week, which was visible from space. According to NOAA<\/a>, the fracture stretched from Port Burwell, Ontario, Canada<\/a> to near Cleveland<\/a>, Ohio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NORTHEAST FINALLY BEGINS TO THAW AFTER DAYS OF LIFE-THREATENING COLD<\/a><\/p>\n

Recent weeks of Arctic temperatures<\/a> across the Midwest<\/a> and Northeast<\/a> have dramatically increased the amount of ice across all the Great Lakes, which are now 58 percent covered.<\/p>\n

Just 5 percent of the Great Lakes were covered on Jan. 14, according to NOAA.<\/p>\n

ICE DISRUPTS FERRY SERVICE IN NEW YORK AS TEMPERATURES RISE ABOVE FREEZING<\/a><\/p>\n

Great Lakes ice coverage.
(FOX Weather)
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Meanwhile, Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Great Lakes, is now 95 percent covered, which has limited lake-effect snow for the downwind areas of Ohio, Pennsylvania<\/a> and New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Coast Guard Great Lakes Division has been conducting icebreaking operations to try and keep commercial traffic moving along the waterways.<\/p>\n

\"U.S. <\/p>\n

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw responds to vessel beset by ice.<\/p>\n

(U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes\/Facebook \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drone video captured an 80-mile-long crack that developed on frozen Lake Erie, which was visible from space. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-110260","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110260","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=110260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}