{"id":140434,"date":"2026-03-17T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140434\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:00:12","slug":"philadelphia-area-school-closings-and-early-dismissals-for-monday-march-16-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140434\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia-area school closings and early dismissals for Monday, March 16, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia region is under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-weather-tornadoes-thunderstorms-flooding\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tornado watch through 7 p.m.<\/a> Monday as a strong cold front moves into the area. The system will bring the potential of strong to severe thunderstorms, damaging winds and the risks of tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p>A few tornadoes are likely, with a couple of intense ones (ER2+) possible, according to the Storm Prediction Center.<\/p>\n<p>Our NEXT Weather team has issued an Alert Day for the potential of damaging wind, brief tornadoes, and pockets of heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest risk for severe weather will be between 2 and 10 p.m., with the threat increasing after 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Several schools in the Philadelphia region are dismissing early due to inclement weather, including Coatesville Area School District and Downingtown Area School District in Chester County and Spring-Ford Area School District and Upper Perkiomen School District in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia region is under a tornado watch through 7 p.m. Monday as a strong cold front moves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[916,915,28,69,71,70,16381,15765],"class_list":["post-140434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-delaware","tag-new-jersey","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-school-closures","tag-winter-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140434","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=140434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}