{"id":200193,"date":"2026-05-22T21:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200193\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:43:20","slug":"pittsburgh-impact-days-to-start-memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200193\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh: Impact Days to start Memorial Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA soggy pattern sets up for Memorial Day weekend. A Flood Watch is up for parts of Western Pennsylvania.Impact Days: Friday and SaturdayA Flood Watch is in effect from 5 p.m. Friday until 2 p.m. Saturday for Allegheny, Beaver, Greene, and Washington counties. Rainfall totals of one and a half to two inches are possible which can cause small stream and urban flooding.The front that brought our rain Wednesday into Thursday returns this afternoon to bring rain showers to Western PA. Rain looks to return by lunch time, from south to north, through the day. The heaviest rain will fall Friday night into Saturday morning when heavy downpours are most likely. Isolated thunder cannot be ruled out, but severe weather is not expected.The widespread rain will begin to taper off after lunch on Saturday. Scattered showers will linger through the day with some dry times. By the time we get to Sunday, rainfall totals of one to two inches are possible with locally higher amounts. Highs will struggle both days to make it into the lower and middle 60s. We will watch our rivers starting Saturday morning for possible river rises.Warmer and drier next weekWe see more isolated showers Sunday, especially in the morning before more rain is possible on Memorial Day. Right now, Sunday and Memorial Day look more on the dry side with just a few isolated showers in the morning. High temperatures will register closer to 80 degrees between the rain chances Sunday and Memorial Day. Conditions will remain mild and dry after the holiday. Highs should stay near 80 heading into the final weekend of May.TONIGHT: Rain, heavy at times. Low 51\u00b0SATURDAY: Impact Day: Widespread rain, heavy at times, through the morning then scattered afternoon showers. High: 62\u00b0, low: 55\u00b0.SUNDAY: Partly to mostly cloudy with isolated showers. High: 78\u00b0, low: 61\u00b0.MEMORIAL DAY: Mostly cloudy with a chance of a shower. High: 77\u00b0, low: 60\u00b0.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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A soggy pattern sets up for Memorial Day weekend. A Flood Watch is up for parts of Western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Impact Days: Friday and Saturday<\/p>\n

A Flood Watch is in effect from 5 p.m. Friday until 2 p.m. Saturday for Allegheny, Beaver, Greene, and Washington counties. Rainfall totals of one and a half to two inches are possible which can cause small stream and urban flooding.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFlood Watch for Friday night into Saturday for Allegheny, Beaver,\u00a0Greene, and Washington counties.<\/p>\n

The front that brought our rain Wednesday into Thursday returns this afternoon to bring rain showers to Western PA. Rain looks to return by lunch time, from south to north, through the day. The heaviest rain will fall Friday night into Saturday morning when heavy downpours are most likely. Isolated thunder cannot be ruled out, but severe weather is not expected.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEveryone will likely see about an inch of rain by Saturday afternoon with locally higher amounts.<\/p>\n

The widespread rain will begin to taper off after lunch on Saturday. Scattered showers will linger through the day with some dry times. By the time we get to Sunday, rainfall totals of one to two inches are possible with locally higher amounts. Highs will struggle both days to make it into the lower and middle 60s. We will watch our rivers starting Saturday morning for possible river rises.<\/p>\n

Warmer and drier next week<\/p>\n

We see more isolated showers Sunday, especially in the morning before more rain is possible on Memorial Day. Right now, Sunday and Memorial Day look more on the dry side with just a few isolated showers in the morning. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe should dry out as we head through\u00a0Memorial Day as highs warm into the upper 70s.<\/p>\n

High temperatures will register closer to 80 degrees between the rain chances Sunday and Memorial Day. Conditions will remain mild and dry after the holiday. Highs should stay near 80 heading into the final weekend of May.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA wet start to the weekend with more sunshine next week.<\/p>\n

TONIGHT: Rain, heavy at times. Low 51\u00b0
SATURDAY: Impact Day: Widespread rain, heavy at times, through the morning then scattered afternoon showers. High: 62\u00b0, low: 55\u00b0.
SUNDAY: Partly to mostly cloudy with isolated showers. High: 78\u00b0, low: 61\u00b0.
MEMORIAL DAY: Mostly cloudy with a chance of a shower. High: 77\u00b0, low: 60\u00b0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A soggy pattern sets up for Memorial Day weekend. A Flood Watch is up for parts of Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[88661,88660,1788,4327,13706,32368,11955,88662,71180,88663,27412,75463,73,75,74,88155,2822,7063,24927,1837,7214,1133,2832,13719,10254],"class_list":["post-200193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-back-impact-days","tag-dry-time","tag-forecast","tag-friday","tag-heavy-rain","tag-high-amount","tag-impact-day","tag-isolated-shower-sunday","tag-low-80","tag-lunch-time","tag-memorial-day","tag-memorial-day-weekend","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-possible-river-rise","tag-rain","tag-saturday","tag-saturday-morning","tag-sunday","tag-today","tag-weather","tag-weekend","tag-widespread-rain","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200193","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=200193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}