{"id":266764,"date":"2026-08-17T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266764\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:00:42","slug":"western-pa-isolated-showers-or-storm-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266764\/","title":{"rendered":"Western PA: Isolated showers or storm this afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western PA: Isolated showers or storm this afternoon<\/p>\n<p>A front will eventually bring relief from the high humidity. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/news-team\/44db4ebc-71f0-44ed-add5-81b1e96852b0\" aria-label=\"Jill Szwed profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/44db4ebc-71f0-44ed-add5-81b1e96852b0_1707775958.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Jill Szwed\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The repetitive rainy pattern comes to an end, finally. Isolated showers and a few storms south of Pittsburgh are possible this afternoon. Another round of showers will arrive Wednesday afternoon. Flooding concerns are minimal this week.<\/p>\n<p>Isolated showers, storms south this afternoon<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Western Pennsylvania is waking up to wet roads and puddles after overnight pockets of heavy rain. Visibility could be impacted during your morning commute.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">A round of isolated showers will drop through the area start around lunchtime. This front could also produce a rumble of thunder south of the Pittsburgh. The soupy air will be whisked away with the front.<\/p>\n<p>More showers Wednesday afternoon<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Another quick system dips through the area Wednesday afternoon with spotty showers and possible thunderstorms. We are not expecting copious amounts of rain or extensive flooding threats.<\/p>\n<p>Loading a September feeling<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Temperatures and humidity levels will drop again late week. Friday will feel more like September. Next weekend&#8217;s forecast could include a few more showers and storms.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">TODAY: Some sunshine with isolated afternoon showers and a storm south. High: 80\u00b0.<br \/>TONIGHT: Clearing with patchy dense fog. Low: 63\u00b0.<br \/>TUESDAY: Morning fog, afternoon sunshine. Not as humid. High: 81\u00b0, low: 62\u00b0.<br \/>WEDNESDAY: Afternoon shower or storm. High: 81\u00b0, low: 64\u00b0.<br \/>THURSDAY: Lingering morning showers. High: 79\u00b0, low: 58\u00b0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western PA: Isolated showers or storm this afternoon A front will eventually bring relief from the high humidity.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3525,15217,13706,13721,112517,112516,73,75,74,8082,9389,63651,6740,25975,23862,5865,4328],"class_list":["post-266764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-afternoon","tag-front","tag-heavy-rain","tag-isolated-shower","tag-more-shower-wednesday-afternoon","tag-overnight-pocket","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-round","tag-september","tag-spotty-shower","tag-storm","tag-temperatures","tag-wednesday-afternoon","tag-week","tag-western-pa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266764","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=266764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}