{"id":247101,"date":"2026-07-19T11:51:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247101\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:51:05","slug":"some-wildfire-smoke-lingers-on-sunday-in-pittsburgh-but-sunshine-and-warmth-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247101\/","title":{"rendered":"Some wildfire smoke lingers on Sunday in Pittsburgh, but sunshine and warmth return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfire smoke will linger a bit today as some areas will be cleaning up from storms yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/surface-wildfire-smoke-sunday.png#.png\" alt=\"surface-wildfire-smoke-sunday.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Wildfire smoke in the region on Sunday morning<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t affect you being outside, so enjoy the upper 70s with some sunshine! The only county with an Air Quality Alert is Garrett County, Maryland, through midnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pool-forecast.png#.png\" alt=\"pool-forecast.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Conditions if you&#8217;re heading to the pool today<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>Hourly Conditions:<\/p>\n<p>9 a.m.: 69\u00b0 CloudyNoon: 73\u00b0 Mostly Cloudy\u00a03 p.m.: 78\u00b0 Sunny6 p.m.: 77\u00b0\u00a0 Sunny<\/p>\n<p>Monday will be gorgeous with low humidity and highs near normal, in the low 80s with mostly sunny skies.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday is our next First Alert Weather Day as strong to severe storms are possible along a cold front. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/tuesday-severe-outlook.png#.png\" alt=\"tuesday-severe-outlook.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Chances for severe weather on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>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 exactly what we were under Saturday, with those severe storms bringing 2 confirmed tornadoes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Damaging winds, flash flooding, small hail, and even possible tornadoes arrive after 2 p.m. north and move through Pittsburgh and south into the evening. Stay weather aware!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After storms move out, it&#8217;ll be nice for the remainder of the week. A few showers linger Wednesday, but those below-normal temperatures will stick around with low humidity for the remainder of the week!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784461865_738_7-day.png#.png\" alt=\"7-day.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  7-day forecast: July 19, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke will linger a bit today as some areas will be cleaning up from storms yesterday.\u00a0 Wildfire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,914,913],"class_list":["post-247101","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\/247101","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=247101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}