{"id":95617,"date":"2026-01-24T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95617\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:05:12","slug":"drone-footage-shows-vast-extent-of-ice-cover-on-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95617\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Footage Shows Vast Extent of Ice Cover on Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lake Erie was reported to be 80 percent ice-covered by late January, local media <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.goerie.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/24\/lake-erie-ice-coverage-nearly-frozen-impacts-lake-effect-snow\/88316996007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> quoting the National Ice Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stunning drone footage recorded by Kelly Matter on January 23 shows a thick crust of ice on the lake, and pancake ice on some parts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Go Erie, Lake Erie currently has the most ice coverage out of all the Great Lakes. Credit: Kelly Matter via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lake Erie was reported to be 80 percent ice-covered by late January, local media said quoting the National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[44712,136,138,137,44711,260,44714],"class_list":["post-95617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-drone-footage","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-kelly-matter","tag-lake-erie","tag-pancake-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95617","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=95617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}