{"id":235669,"date":"2026-07-04T21:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235669\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T21:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:56:12","slug":"pittsburgh-suspends-4th-of-july-events-amid-thunderstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235669\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh suspends 4th of July events amid thunderstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh is suspending its Independence Day celebrations as intermittent rain and thunderstorms batter the region.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on social media, the city said lightning had been detected within 8 miles of events and advised visitors to take shelter.<\/p>\n<p>Shelters downtown are located at the Wyndham Grand Hotel and the United Steel Workers Building garage, the post said. Visitors to the North Shore can find shelter at Acrisure Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The city said it will provide further updates on programming as it monitors the weather. The National Weather Service had issued a severe thunderstorm watch until 9 p.m. for much of Western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown festivities began at 4 p.m. ahead of a fireworks display at 9:35 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh is suspending its Independence Day celebrations as intermittent rain and thunderstorms batter the region. In a post&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-235669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235669","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=235669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}