{"id":271284,"date":"2026-08-24T15:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271284\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:54:12","slug":"cool-and-dry-for-back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271284\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool and Dry for Back to School"},"content":{"rendered":"

Western PA: Dry and pleasant final week of August<\/p>\n

The only rain chance this week is Thursday, and what falls will be light and isolated.<\/p>\n

\"Jill<\/a>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n

We are finally catching a break from the rain! Cooler temperatures are also settling in to close out August.<\/p>\n

Seasonably cool finish to August<\/p>\n

Let Mother Nature take care of the climate control this week. High temperatures will close to 70 degrees this afternoon, which is more typical for late September as opposed to late August. Another very comfortable night is in store with lows in the mid 50s. Readings will gradually moderate through the week.<\/p>\n

Rain Chances Return Thursday<\/p>\n

The only rain chance through the end of the month is Thursday. The coverage and rain total are not that impressive in the isolated to scattered range. The best time to catch a shower looks to be during the second half of the day.<\/p>\n

Dry and mild this weekend<\/p>\n

Why not look ahead to the weekend with a quiet forecast in our future. Friday night looks fantastic for the kickoff to the high school football season. Dry and mild conditions continue throughout the upcoming weekend. <\/p>\n

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TODAY: Sun and clouds, breezy and cooler afternoon. High: 71\u00b0.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Low 57\u00b0.
TUESDAY: Sunshine with passing clouds. High: 76\u00b0, low: 58\u00b0.
WEDNESDAY: Milder and becoming partly cloudy. High: 81\u00b0, low: 62\u00b0.
THURSDAY: More clouds with isolated PM showers. High: 83\u00b0, low: 64\u00b0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western PA: Dry and pleasant final week of August The only rain chance this week is Thursday, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[114208,44072,2828,10697,114207,1788,13187,10253,73,75,6846,74,2822,114206,521,6740,3516,3522,12173,1133,2832,10254],"class_list":["post-271284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-5th-wet-all-time","tag-back-to-school","tag-cooler","tag-dry","tag-drya-taste","tag-forecast","tag-month","tag-pawx","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-international-airport","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rain","tag-rain-chance-return-thursdayfollowing","tag-school","tag-storm","tag-sun","tag-thursday","tag-tonight","tag-weather","tag-weekend","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271284","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=271284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}