{"id":273341,"date":"2026-08-27T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273341\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:20:09","slug":"philadelphia-forecast-severe-weather-flooding-threat-heading-to-northeast-on-thursday-live-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273341\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia forecast: Severe weather, flooding threat heading to Northeast on Thursday | LIVE RADAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">More than 38 million people from New York City to Washington, D.C., are bracing for severe weather on Thursday, including flash flooding, damaging winds, large hail and possible tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The threat covers a wide swath of the Northeast, stretching from Syracuse, New York, and Vermont down to Virginia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For the Interstate 95 corridor from New York City to D.C., heavy thunderstorms could bring rainfall rates topping 2 inches per hour. Rain totals could reach 5 inches in some areas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19745248_082726-wpvi-flood-watch-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The storms are forecast to begin around 1 p.m. Thursday. The showers and thunderstorms will continue in a scattered fashion through the afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The worst of the storms will likely strike New York City between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. and reach Philadelphia and D.C. between\u00a05 p.m. and 8 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A flood watch will be in effect for New York City, New York&#8217;s Hudson Valley, much of New Jersey, as well as Philadelphia from noon through the evening.<\/p>\n<p>The risk of flash flooding and scattered strong to severe storms is possible this afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 38 million people from New York City to Washington, D.C., are bracing for severe weather on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[114963,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-273341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-114963","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273341","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=273341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}