{"id":246558,"date":"2026-07-18T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246558\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:25:09","slug":"live-updates-air-quality-emergency-severe-storms-in-philly-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246558\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Air quality emergency, severe storms in Philly \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to KnowA FIRST ALERT is in effect for the Philadelphia region due to poor air quality\u00a0and severe thunderstorms on Saturday, July 18, 2026. While the air quality is expected to improve over the weekend, the next threat on Saturday will be severe storms that could bring heavy rain, flooding and possible tornadoes. However, the lingering wildfire smoke on Saturday could possibly lessen the impact.Get the latest weather updates by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">downloading the NBC10 app<\/a>\u00a0and following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the NBC10 First Alert Weather team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A FIRST ALERT is in effect for the Philadelphia region due to poor air quality\u00a0and severe thunderstorms on Saturday, July 18, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Follow along below for live updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowA FIRST ALERT is in effect for the Philadelphia region due to poor air quality\u00a0and severe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7554,69,71,70,913],"class_list":["post-246558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-first-alert-weather","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-weather-forecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246558","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=246558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}