{"id":224918,"date":"2026-06-22T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/224918\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:53:08","slug":"thunderstorms-may-impact-mondays-world-cup-match-in-south-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/224918\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorms may impact Monday\u2019s World Cup match in South Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Soccer fans are taking over the city for the France-Iraq World Cup match in South Philadelphia on Monday, but evening thunderstorms could impact the game.<\/p>\n<p>Severe thunderstorms are in the forecast Monday afternoon, between 3 and 9 p.m., according to AccuWeather. The storms could bring damaging winds, lightning and hail.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of showers and thunderstorms late at night could also impact post-match festivities. <\/p>\n<p>If lightning strikes within 8 miles of the stadium, fans must evacuate to the main concourse, according to FIFA rules, where they must wait at least 30 minutes before the game can restart. <\/p>\n<p>Fans attending the game inside Lincoln Financial Field (Philadelphia Stadium) cannot bring umbrellas, but ponchos are allowed. <\/p>\n<p>The FIFA Fan Festival at Lemon Hill is a rain-or-shine event, but organizers said dangerous storms may lead to evacuations, too. <\/p>\n<p>The France-Iraq match kicks off at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Soccer fans are taking over the city for the France-Iraq World Cup match in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2013,69,71,70,97660,1133,2236],"class_list":["post-224918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-south-philadelphia-sports-complex","tag-weather","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224918","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=224918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}