{"id":111214,"date":"2026-02-11T16:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/111214\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:37:18","slug":"new-drone-images-of-massive-ice-crack-on-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/111214\/","title":{"rendered":"New drone images of massive ice crack on Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; The massive ice crack along Lake Erie has been quite the talker. But do we know what caused it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lake Erie was quick to freeze over due to multiple blasts of frigid Arctic air this winter. But recently, all eyes have been on a large split in the ice that now extends over 80 miles and is growing in width as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New drone images give us a better idea of just how massive the crack in the ice is and can also help us understand how it happened. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Drone footage of ice crack\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CKB2SLXDE5D33IT3WNLYLEERLI.PNG\" width=\"980\" height=\"499\" \/>Drone footage of ice crack(CNN Newsource)<a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/page\/our-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"WSMV - template image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770827838_117_PYQCNXWUIVE27BALA565ZY2LFQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There are a couple of factors that went into splitting the ice apart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHANGING TEMPERATURES &#8211; Fluctuations in temperature cause the ice to expand and contract, which helps cause small cracks in the ice to begin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">GUSTY WINDS &#8211; High and persistent winds over the Great Lakes pushed around the massive ice sheet and also moved water currents beneath the surface of the ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The combination of high winds and fluctuating temperatures is the main cause of the split in the ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WSMV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; The massive ice crack along Lake Erie has been quite the talker. But do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,53091,262,53090,260,17924],"class_list":["post-111214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-first-alert","tag-great-lakes","tag-ice-crack","tag-lake-erie","tag-wsmv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111214","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=111214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}