{"id":236294,"date":"2026-07-05T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236294\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:13:07","slug":"fifa-fan-festival-in-philadelphia-shuts-down-as-storms-threaten-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236294\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Fan Festival in Philadelphia shuts down as storms threaten region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia&#8217;s FIFA Fan Festival is closing early Sunday evening because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/hot-humid-storms-weather-sunday\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">expected storms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DabYXjnpmpt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">social media<\/a> around 6:30 p.m., organizers said the festival on Lemon Hill in Fairmount Park is closed for the remainder of the day. A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for the entire Philadelphia region through 1 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bummed to miss out on Mexico-England but forecasted storms in Philadelphia will force us to close,&#8221; a post on Instagram said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Severe storms are in the forecast Sunday night and could bring damaging winds, lightning and flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Extreme heat and strong storms disrupted several Fourth of July events over the weekend. The One Philly: Unity Concert for America on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Saturday was paused for more than two hours as storms swept through the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mexico and England are set to meet for a Round of 16 match in Mexico City at 8 p.m. Eastern Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 400,000 people have attended the festival in Philly since it opened in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s FIFA Fan Festival is closing early Sunday evening because of expected storms. In a post on social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,2236],"class_list":["post-236294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","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\/236294","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=236294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}