{"id":246705,"date":"2026-07-18T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246705\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T15:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:41:12","slug":"air-quality-improves-on-saturday-in-pittsburgh-but-strong-storms-possible-throughout-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246705\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality improves on Saturday in Pittsburgh, but strong storms possible throughout the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfire smoke will improve by late morning and in the afternoon with help from the rain, which means the off-and-on thunderstorms continue through the morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/air-quality-alert.png#.webp\" alt=\"air-quality-alert.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Air quality alerts end just before 10 a.m. on Saturday<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>Then this afternoon, strong to severe storms move in as a line, bringing damaging winds, hail, and even possible tornadoes after 3 p.m. north and move through Pittsburgh and south into the evening. This can delay games and even pause events for some time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/severe-threats.png#.webp\" alt=\"severe-threats.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Threats of severe weather on Saturday<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>Secure those loose outdoor items and stay weather aware! We are under an Enhanced Risk for severe weather, which means a higher confidence for more numerous storms to be severe. It&#8217;s a 3 out of 5 on the severe weather scale and doesn&#8217;t happen very often here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/next-24-hours.png#.webp\" alt=\"next-24-hours.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Conditions through Sunday morning<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>After storms move out, it&#8217;ll be calm Sunday and Monday with sunny skies, but hazy skies stick around through Sunday; air quality won&#8217;t be as bad as it was on Friday. It may be a clean-up day for many.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday will be our next chance for storms, then temperatures drop below normal for several days with lower humidity and dry conditions!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hazy skies could return for next weekend!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7-day.png#.webp\" alt=\"7-day.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  7-day forecast: July 18, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke will improve by late morning and in the afternoon with help from the rain, which means&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,914,913],"class_list":["post-246705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-weather-blogs","tag-weather-forecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246705","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=246705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}