{"id":270166,"date":"2026-08-22T13:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270166\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:06:12","slug":"afternoon-strong-to-severe-storms-possible-in-the-pittsburgh-area-on-saturday-first-alert-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270166\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon strong to severe storms possible in the Pittsburgh area on Saturday | First Alert Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a KDKA First Alert Weather Day with the chance of strong to severe storms mainly after 4 p.m. today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/spc-today.png#.png\" alt=\"spc-today.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Severe storm outlook in the region &#8211; Saturday, August 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>Damaging winds, large hail, and flooding are all possible. Most of the region is under a &#8216;slight risk&#8217; for severe weather, which is a 2 out of 5 on the severe weather scale, meaning there&#8217;s a higher confidence now for one to two storms to become severe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will be cooler with highs in the mid 70s. Isolated showers and a general thunderstorm are possible later in the evening, but much of the day on Sunday will be dry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787403972_943_next-24-hours.png#.png\" alt=\"next-24-hours.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Conditions over the next 24 hours<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>Monday and Tuesday will be mostly sunny and comfortable with highs in the mid to upper 70s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rain-chance-this-week.png#.png\" alt=\"rain-chance-this-week.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Chances for rain over the next six days<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, there&#8217;s a small chance for showers, but the week will be mostly pleasant!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787403972_74_7-day.png#.png\" alt=\"7-day.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  7-day forecast: August 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is a KDKA First Alert Weather Day with the chance of strong to severe storms mainly after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,914,913],"class_list":["post-270166","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\/270166","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=270166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}