As Allentown prepares for its annual St. Patrick\u2019s Parade on Sunday, the chance that showers and thunderstorms could affect the festivities has increased.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a 40% chance that Allentown will see precipitation Sunday afternoon, with the odds of showers and thunderstorms increasing to 90% in the evening hours, according to the latest National Weather Service forecast. Saturday is expected to remain dry.<\/p>\n
The Sunday forecast calls for a chance of showers between 2 and 5 p.m., with thunderstorms possible after 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
Total new rainfall is expected to be low Sunday afternoon, with a forecasted amount of less than a tenth of an inch that could rise if thunderstorms materialize.<\/p>\n
Sunday temperatures are expected to approach a high of 71 degrees, with low winds between 5 and 10 mph.<\/p>\n
Sunday evening, the chance of showers and thunderstorms will rise to 90%, with forecasted new precipitation between a tenth and a quarter of an inch. The weather service expects the thunderstorm risk to dissipate by 11 p.m., but rain showers could continue.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the extended weather service forecast for next week:<\/p>\n
Monday: A chance of showers before 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 50. North wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.<\/p>\n
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 29.<\/p>\n
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 49.<\/p>\n
Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34.<\/p>\n
Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 53.<\/p>\n
Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35.<\/p>\n
Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 56.<\/p>\n
Thursday Night: Rain likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40. Chance of precipitation is 60%.<\/p>\n
Friday: A chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 52. Chance of precipitation is 30%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Allentown prepares for its annual St. Patrick\u2019s Parade on Sunday, the chance that showers and thunderstorms could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2376,433,139,434,28,432,1133],"class_list":["post-144739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144739","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=144739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}