{"id":225138,"date":"2026-06-22T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225138\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:25:08","slug":"philadelphias-fifa-fan-festival-to-temporarily-close-because-of-inclement-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225138\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s FIFA Fan Festival to temporarily close because of inclement weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia&#8217;s FIFA Fan Festival at Lemon Hill is temporarily closing as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/weather-in-philadelphia-france-vs-iraq\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">severe weather<\/a> is expected to roll through the region Monday afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA World Cup 26 Philadelphia announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FWC26Philly\/status\/2069114958403571897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">temporary closure<\/a> Monday afternoon on social media. They said the festival will be closed for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Severe storms are expected to move into the Philadelphia region and bring damaging winds, lightning and the threat of isolated tornadoes in some parts. Our NEXT Weather Team has issued a NEXT Weather Alert for Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain could lead to flash flooding in the region and possibly impact the Men&#8217;s World Cup match between France and Iraq scheduled for 5 p.m. at Philadelphia Stadium (Lincoln Financial Field).<\/p>\n<p>Stay with the NEXT Weather Team as we track the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/video\/next-weather-alert-in-effect-for-severe-storms-flood-watch-in-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">incoming storms<\/a>, which are expected to hit the Philadelphia area between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s FIFA Fan Festival at Lemon Hill is temporarily closing as severe weather is expected to roll through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37638,28,69,71,70,2236],"class_list":["post-225138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fairmount","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225138","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=225138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}