{"id":221369,"date":"2026-06-17T13:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221369\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:47:11","slug":"high-risk-of-rip-currents-in-lake-erie-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221369\/","title":{"rendered":"High risk of rip currents in Lake Erie on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 As winds start to pick up with an <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/oh\/cleveland\/weather\/2026\/06\/16\/back-to-back-severe-storm-chances-tuesday--wednesday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">incoming storm system<\/a> moving across Ohio later on, the National Weather Service is urging swimmers to avoid Lake Erie on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>NWS issued a Beach Hazards Statement for several counties along the shoreline due to the high risk of rip currents, including Lucas, Ottawa, Erie, Lorain, Cuyahoga, Lake and Ashtabula counties.<\/p>\n<p>The NWS urges swimmers to stay away from the water, as wind and waves are causing intense rip currents.<\/p>\n<p>Rip currents pull people away from the shore, and they vary in speed. The U.S. Lifesaving Association warns even the strongest swimmer can get carried away from the shore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rip_current_graphic_3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\" img-data-caption=\"(National Weather Service)\" img-data-wrap-text=\"true\" img-data-editing=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(National Weather Service)<\/p>\n<p>Around 80% of rescues are performed because of rip currents, according to the U.S. Lifesaving Association.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re ever caught in a rip current, here&#8217;s what you can do:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Relax so rip currents don&#8217;t pull you under<br \/>\nDon\u2019t swim against the current<br \/>\nYou may be able to escape by swimming out of the current in a direction following the shoreline, or toward breaking waves, then at an angle toward the beach<br \/>\nYou may be able to escape by floating or treading water if the current circulates back toward shore<br \/>\nIf you feel you will be unable to reach shore, draw attention to yourself. If you need help, yell and wave for assistance&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rip currents can be spotted a few ways. Sometimes it can be seen as a narrow gap of darker, calmer water between waves and whitewater. It could also look like a channel of choppy water, but the key sign is a difference in water color.<\/p>\n<p>For more tips and warnings about rip currents, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usla.org\/page\/ripcurrents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 As winds start to pick up with an incoming storm system moving across Ohio later on,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[292,45275,76,136,138,137,291,139,293,16386,295,38011],"class_list":["post-221369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-weather-stories","tag-cleveland","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lydia-taylor","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-toledo","tag-top-stories","tag-weather-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221369","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=221369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}