with highs in the 80s, for Musikfest attendees. The 10-day festival in Bethlehem kicked off Friday.<\/a><\/p>\nA system should come to the area late Sunday night and Monday morning, and the Lehigh Valley is under a marginal risk of excessive rainfall and severe thunderstorms during that time period, according to forecasters. There is a slight risk of excessive rain Monday night, the weather service said. Flash flooding could also come from any excessive rainfall.<\/p>\n
Rain is possible in the afternoon and evening hours most days next week, however forecasters said Monday will likely be the most active day.<\/p>\n
Here is the extended forecast from the National Weather Service:<\/p>\n
Sunday: A chance of showers after 5 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 86. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.<\/p>\n
Monday: Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11 a.m. High near 84. Southwest wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.<\/p>\n
Tuesday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. Chance of precipitation is 50%.<\/p>\n
Wednesday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 86. Chance of precipitation is 60%.<\/p>\n
Thursday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 87. Chance of precipitation is 50%.<\/p>\n
Friday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Chance of precipitation is 40%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lehigh Valley could get rain and thunderstorms to start the next week. Showers and storms are possible…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,182,139,432,1133],"class_list":["post-257783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257783","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=257783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}