{"id":199084,"date":"2026-05-21T18:11:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199084\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:11:57","slug":"why-swimming-in-lake-erie-is-risky-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199084\/","title":{"rendered":"Why swimming in Lake Erie is risky this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

(WJW) \u2014 The National Weather Service warned swimmers away from Lake Erie<\/a> for the rest of the week, citing high risk from rip tide currents.<\/p>\n

The service on Thursday, May 21, issued<\/a> a BEACH HAZARD STATEMENT for Northern Ohio\u2019s lakefront counties, including Ashtabula<\/a>, Cuyahoga<\/a>, Erie<\/a>, Lake<\/a>, Lorain<\/a> and Ottawa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018A miracle\u2019: Fishermen rescued from Lake Erie, including 1 who treaded water for hours <\/a><\/p>\n

The alert took effect at 8 a.m. on Thursday and continues through Saturday morning at the latest in some counties.<\/p>\n

\u201cWind and wave action will cause currents on the lakeshore,\u201d reads the alert. \u201cSwimmers should not enter the water. Currents can carry swimmers away from shore through a sand bar and along structures extending out into the lake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not that one might actually want to swim on Thursday. The water temperature off the coast of Cleveland is 55 degrees, according to the weather service.<\/p>\n

FOX 8 meteorologists reported<\/a> lake water has been colder so far this year than in years past:<\/p>\n

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

Windy with sunshine; will we stay dry for Memorial Day weekend? <\/a><\/p>\n

May is National Water Safety Month<\/a>. Get water safety tips on the Pool & Hot Tub Alliance website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re also in the tail end of National Safe Boating Week, which ends on Friday, May 22. Here\u2019s what families should know before embarking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cuyahoga County officials on Thursday planned to highlight the importance of staying safe in the water and on boats, beach regulations and emergency response tips. Read more about that later on FOX8.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to Fox 8 Cleveland WJW. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WJW) \u2014 The National Weather Service warned swimmers away from Lake Erie for the rest of the week,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,260,3687,88245],"class_list":["post-199084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lake-erie","tag-national-weather-service","tag-rip-tide-currents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199084","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=199084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}