{"id":257653,"date":"2026-08-02T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257653\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:54:11","slug":"heavy-rain-and-flash-flooding-possible-on-sunday-in-pittsburgh-first-alert-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257653\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain and flash flooding possible on Sunday in Pittsburgh | First Alert Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a First Alert Weather Day with the risk for flash flooding this afternoon and evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/flood-watch.png#.png\" alt=\"flood-watch.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A Flood Watch is in effect for the region until midnight.<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>A round of thunderstorms has already moved through this morning, and several more rounds are expected today. We are under a Flood Watch until midnight, meaning flash flooding could happen today as 1-2&#8243; of rainfall is expected for many and even more for some isolated areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/futurecast-est-precip-accum.png#.png\" alt=\"futurecast-est-precip-accum.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Expected rainfall totals through 12:45 a.m. on Monday<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>If you live in a low-lying\/flood prone area, make sure you&#8217;re staying weather aware. Highs today won&#8217;t even make it to 80 degrees for most. The severe weather threat is low (1 out of 5), meaning general thunderstorms are expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Models are drying out for Monday and Tuesday with more sunshine, low humidity, and seasonable highs in the low 80s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/next-24-hours.png#.png\" alt=\"next-24-hours.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Conditions through 6 a.m. on Monday morning<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the week, the unsettled weather pattern returns with scattered showers and thunderstorms and highs in the low to mid 80s.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785671651_685_7-day.png#.png\" alt=\"7-day.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  7-day forecast: August 2, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is a First Alert Weather Day with the risk for flash flooding this afternoon and evening.\u00a0 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,914,913],"class_list":["post-257653","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\/257653","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=257653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}