{"id":217570,"date":"2026-06-12T16:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217570\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:41:25","slug":"swimmers-warned-not-to-enter-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217570\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimmers warned not to enter Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CLEVELAND (WJW) \u2014 The National Weather Service is warning swimmers not to enter the water in Lake Erie late tonight through Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/fox8.com\/weather\/weather-alerts\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Weather Alerts;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Weather Alerts&quot;}\"> Weather Alerts <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Beach Hazard Statement has been issued for several counties beginning 2 a.m. Friday and stretching through Friday afternoon due to \u201chazardous swimming conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NWS says swimmers should not enter the water, and currents can carry them away from the shore. A high risk of rip currents are expected.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/fox8.com\/weather\/?ipid=promo-link-block2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Check out the weather forecast;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Check out the weather forecast&quot;}\"> Check out the weather forecast <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The alert will be in effect for Ashtabula lakeshore, Cuyahoga, Erie, Lake, Lorain and Ottawa counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fox8.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to Fox 8 Cleveland WJW.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to Fox 8 Cleveland WJW.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to Fox 8 Cleveland WJW. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (WJW) \u2014 The National Weather Service is warning swimmers not to enter the water in Lake Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,14555,260,3687,95090,12117],"class_list":["post-217570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-friday-afternoon","tag-lake-erie","tag-national-weather-service","tag-rip-currents","tag-wjw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217570","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=217570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}