West Penn Power<\/a> \u201cis operating normally,\u201d with just 600 of its 740,000 customers in southwestern Pennsylvania without service, spokeswoman Bridget McNie said Thursday morning. About 353 of the 600-customer total lost power \u201crelated to last evening\u2019s weather.<\/p>\n\u201cThose weather-related outages are our top priority this morning, and crews are working as quickly and safely as possible to restore service.\u201d<\/p>\n
No severe weather is forecast for Friday.<\/p>\n
Most of Allegheny and Westmoreland counties got about an inch of rain through Thursday morning, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Brudy, who is based in Moon. Some northwestern Allegheny County towns \u2014 namely Franklin Park and Moon \u2014 reported twice that total.<\/p>\n
The storm dumped the largest amount of rain \u2014 around 2\u00bd inches \u2014 in the West Virginia panhandle.<\/p>\n
The rainfall brings September\u2019s current tally at Pittsburgh International Airport in Findlay to 3.55 inches, more than 2\u00bd inches above average, Brody said.<\/p>\n
Nearly 8 inches of rain hit Pittsburgh in August, the most the weather service has reported since it started keeping records in 1871.<\/p>\n
The weather service also issued three tornado warnings in the region Wednesday, Brudy said. Only one \u2014 in south-central Beaver County \u2014 was issued in Pennsylvania. No tornadoes were reported.<\/p>\n
The storm\u2019s impact on infrastructure appeared minimal Thursday morning. There were \u201csporadic\u201d reports of downed trees and power lines in the East Liverpool, Ohio area, Brudy said.<\/p>\n
Multiple vehicles got stuck in water \u2014 but nobody was injured \u2014 during flash flooding along McKnight Road in McCandless, Brudy and McCandless police said.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh residents might see some rain showers Friday, with the chance of scattered storms growing to about 70% by Saturday afternoon, Brudy said. Highs this weekend will range from the upper 70s to low 80s.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe muggiest-feeling day will be Saturday, when the dew point is in the low- to mid-70s,\u201d Brudy said. \u201cThat\u2019ll make it a little sticky out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s storm paled in comparison to one that hit Pittsburgh last week, felling trees and knocking out power to thousands of homes.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Wednesday\u2019s storm) didn\u2019t have near the widespread severity or damage compared to a week ago,\u201d Brudy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cluster of storms Wednesday night dropped 2 inches of rain in parts of the Pittsburgh area, further…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-283208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283208","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=283208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}