{"id":457808,"date":"2026-02-09T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457808\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:57:08","slug":"whos-that-out-on-the-river-sleepy-critter-takes-a-nap-on-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457808\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s that out on the river? Sleepy critter takes a nap on the ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ohio River isn’t frozen enough to safely walk out on, but that didn’t stop one curious critter.<\/p>\n

Bellevue police said one of their sergeants spotted a coyote<\/a> napping out on the ice Sunday morning, Feb. 8. Police warned boaters and ice fishers along the river to keep an eye on any small pets.<\/p>\n

Freezing temperatures from arctic air have rested across Cincinnati in recent weeks, with occasional sub-zero lows overnight.<\/p>\n

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The temps have not been cold enough for long enough to truly freeze the river like some locals might remember from 1977<\/a>. Meteorologists have told The Enquirer it would take weeks of consistent freezing temps for the river to freeze over.<\/p>\n

However, the big melt is on the way<\/a>, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.<\/p>\n

Over the next few weeks, the weather service says above average temperatures are expected for the region. An average temperature for Cincinnati in mid-February is around 41 degrees.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Bellevue police spots coyote taking nap on icy, frozen Ohio River<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ohio River isn’t frozen enough to safely walk out on, but that didn’t stop one curious critter.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[213923,50710,15056,213922,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-457808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-average-temperatures","9":"tag-bellevue-police","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-ice-fishers","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}