{"id":200432,"date":"2026-05-23T04:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200432\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T04:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:14:07","slug":"travelers-power-through-rainy-philadelphia-weather-to-enjoy-memorial-day-weekend-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200432\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelers power through rainy Philadelphia weather to enjoy Memorial Day weekend plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of sandals and t-shirts many people from the city to the Shore were bundled-up dodging rain drops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a dreary, damp start to Memorial Day Weekend. There was a chill on the air, a small breeze, and the rain continued to fall on and off Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wore my favorite sneakers and didn&#8217;t realize it was going to rain,&#8221; said Laura McMullin, who lives in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Most were hoping for sunny skies this holiday weekend, but they aren&#8217;t going let this weather rain on their parade and they plan to go with the flow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t change the weather,&#8221; said Ella Moser of Germantown. &#8220;I have my umbrella in my bag and that&#8217;s about it I&#8217;m ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rain happens, it&#8217;s weather, but we are here so it will be good, &#8221; said Laura McMullin. She says she is in the city for a conference and they are trying to fit in some fun things when there is a lull in the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Many people said they had BBQ plans and they are not sure how that&#8217;s going to turn out, but they are looking forward to spending time with family this holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Ant Brown says he may be indoors more than he thought this weekend , but it happy to be family and friends and hopes maybe the sun will peak through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got past the winter time, so now it&#8217;s nice and we are looking forward to it continuing to be nice and sunny,\u00a0but hopefully we get through this rain,&#8221; Brown said<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Instead of sandals and t-shirts many people from the city to the Shore were bundled-up dodging rain drops.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27412,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-200432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-memorial-day","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200432","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=200432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}