{"id":12911,"date":"2025-10-23T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12911\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T21:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:26:23","slug":"lake-erie-waterspouts-today-in-cleveland-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12911\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Erie waterspouts today in Cleveland Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (WJW) \u2013 Waterspouts were spotted over Lake Erie near <a href=\"http:\/\/fox8.com\/tag\/cleveland-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cleveland<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon, which is common in the area, was recorded by Jonathan Hammel, a physics student at Cleveland State University, as he drove to campus.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/fox8.com\/news\/documents-reveal-what-led-to-5-year-old-girl-falling-off-disney-cruise-ship-dad-jumping-to-rescue-her\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tDocuments reveal what led to 5-year-old girl falling off Disney cruise ship, dad jumping to rescue her\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw this on my way to CSU and thought to pull over and record it since I love waterspouts!\u201d Hammel told FOX 8. <\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/facts\/waterspout.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/a> (NOAA), a waterspout is a \u201cwhirling column of air and water mist,\u201d like a tornado but over water instead of land. They are typically weaker than tornadoes and can form quickly, lasting only a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>FOX 8 Meteorologist Jenn Harcher explained that waterspouts are particularly common on Lake Erie during late summer and early fall. These \u201cfair-weather waterspouts\u201d form when cooler air moves over the warmer surface of the lake. The temperature difference causes the warm air to rise, creating a rotating column that can form a waterspout.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/fox8.com\/news\/body-found-in-trash-bags-identified-as-ohio-7-year-old\/?ipid=promo-link-block2\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tBody found in trash bags identified as Ohio 7-year-old\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaterspouts over Lake Erie are usually weak and short-lived, but they can be a spectacular sight,\u201d Harcher said.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Erie holds the global record for producing the most waterspouts.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (WJW) \u2013 Waterspouts were spotted over Lake Erie near Cleveland on Thursday. The phenomenon, which is common&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9921,136,138,137,260,9922],"class_list":["post-12911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-cleveland-news","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lake-erie","tag-waerspout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911","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=12911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}