Storms are possible Wednesday across the Lehigh Valley before a cold front makes its way through the region.<\/p>\n
Temperatures are expected to reach the mid-70s before thunderstorms develop later in the afternoon, according to the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey.<\/p>\n
The greatest severe weather threat will be 3-10 p.m., according to the weather service. Forecasters noted scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms could continue overnight.<\/p>\n
In addition to storms, there could be isolated damaging winds, large hail and locally heavy rainfall, according to forecasters. There is an 80% chance of precipitation throughout the day and evening.<\/p>\n
After the cold front moves through, high temperatures will just reach the low 50s Thursday. Another warmup is expected as temperatures climb back into the mid-70s Friday and could even reach 80 on Saturday, according to the weather service.<\/p>\n
Easter Sunday will be a little cooler, though still mild, with a high in the upper 60s expected. However, showers are expected, with an 80% chance of precipitation, according to the forecast.<\/p>\n
In fact, rain will be possible every day Thursday through Sunday, forecasters said.<\/p>\n
Heading into next week, cooler weather will return, with high temperatures in the mid 50s Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Here is the extended forecast from the National Weather Service:<\/p>\n
Thursday: A chance of showers, mainly before 2 p.m. Cloudy, with a high near 52. East wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.<\/p>\n
Friday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 74. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Saturday: A chance of showers after 2 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 80. Chance of precipitation is 30%.<\/p>\n
Sunday: Showers. High near 68. Chance of precipitation is 80%.<\/p>\n
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 55.<\/p>\n
Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 55.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storms are possible Wednesday across the Lehigh Valley before a cold front makes its way through the region.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,182,139,434,28,432,1133],"class_list":["post-154597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","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\/154597","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=154597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}