{"id":242248,"date":"2026-07-13T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242248\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:56:07","slug":"thunderstorm-heavy-winds-pummel-lower-merion-outages-storm-damage-linger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242248\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm, Heavy Winds Pummel Lower Merion; Outages, Storm Damage Linger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s thunderstorms brought at least four microbursts \u2014 an air column that&#8217;s pushed downward during a thunderstorm, which then bursts heavy wind in all directions \u2014 to the Philadelphia area, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>The first recorded microburst happened at 2:44 p.m. in Lower Merion, pushing gusts of 60 to 70 mph gusts that caused power outages while damaging trees and infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday&#8217;s thunderstorms brought at least four microbursts \u2014 an air column that&#8217;s pushed downward during a thunderstorm, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-242248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242248","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=242248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}