{"id":268293,"date":"2026-08-19T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268293\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:30:10","slug":"storms-to-bring-flash-flooding-strong-winds-to-philly-area-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268293\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms to bring flash flooding, strong winds to Philly area \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Severe storms are set to bring heavy rain, flash flooding and gusty winds to the Philadelphia region on Thursday. <\/p>\n

A FIRST ALERT is in effect for the entire area on Thursday, Aug. 20, from 1 p.m. through 9 p.m. <\/p>\n

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Ahead of the stormy conditions on Thursday, the weather will remain comfortable on Wednesday before humidity returns throughout the evening as clouds slowly arrive. <\/p>\n

On Thursday, the threat for flash flooding and severe weather returns to the region. The storms will arrive shortly after noon and become more intense by mid-afternoon. <\/p>\n

Two to three inches of rain will fall in a short time and flash flooding is likely. Some of the storms may also be severe, producing winds over 60 mph. <\/p>\n

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Thursday’s storms should exit by around 9 p.m. Temperatures throughout the day will be in the lower 80s. <\/p>\n

Friday will be dry and mostly sunny with comfortable temperatures in the mid-80s. The storms will return on Saturday and Sunday though the weekend won’t be a washout with on and off showers and storms likely. The highs will be in the lower 80s on both days. <\/p>\n

Monday and Tuesday will be beautiful with highs in the low 80s, low humidity and sunshine. <\/p>\n

Get the latest weather updates by downloading the NBC10 app<\/a> and following the NBC10 First Alert Weather team<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Severe storms are set to bring heavy rain, flash flooding and gusty winds to the Philadelphia region on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7554,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-268293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-first-alert-weather","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268293","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=268293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}