{"id":235653,"date":"2026-07-04T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235653\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:31:08","slug":"pittsburghs-fourth-of-july-celebrations-temporarily-suspended-due-to-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235653\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh&#8217;s Fourth of July celebrations temporarily suspended due to lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Pittsburgh has temporarily suspended its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pittsburgh-fourth-of-july-america-250-celebration-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fourth of July celebrations<\/a>\u00a0due to the threat of inclement weather.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pittsburgh\/status\/2073510351753084998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-absolute=\"true\">social media post<\/a>\u00a0just before 5 p.m., officials said lightning had been detected within 8 miles of the event location, prompting the suspension.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Guests are advised to seek shelter, move indoors if possible, and avoid open areas,&#8221; the post read.<\/p>\n<p>Available shelter locations in Downtown Pittsburgh include the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown hotel and the United Steelworkers Building garage.<\/p>\n<p>Those on the North Shore are advised to seek shelter within Acrisure Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>A city spokesperson relayed to KDKA-TV that they are &#8220;continuing to monitor the weather&#8221; and advising guests to regularly check city-affiliated social media accounts for the latest updates, adding that there are &#8220;no changes right now to later programming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Pittsburgh has temporarily suspended its Fourth of July celebrations\u00a0due to the threat of inclement weather.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40018,92364,73,75,74,1522],"class_list":["post-235653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-4th-of-july","tag-july-4th","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-severe-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235653","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=235653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}