{"id":284486,"date":"2026-09-12T13:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284486\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T13:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:04:15","slug":"heavy-downpours-expected-in-the-pittsburgh-area-on-saturday-first-alert-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284486\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy downpours expected in the Pittsburgh area on Saturday | First Alert Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a First Alert Weather Day with heavy downpours and storms leading to possible flash flooding from noon until 1 a.m. Sunday. We are under a marginal risk for severe weather, which is a 1 out of 5, meaning a lower confidence that storms will become severe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/futurecast-precip.png#.png\" alt=\"futurecast-precip.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Expected rainfall through 6 a.m. on Sunday morning<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>Flooding will be the biggest threat this afternoon and evening. Anywhere from 1-3&#8243; is possible for rainfall amounts today across the region.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, we will see decreasing clouds to start off with highs in the low 80s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a small chance for an isolated shower or thunderstorm in the evening. Much of the day is dry, but there will be some isolated areas that get a quick shower or storm in the evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is also a marginal risk (1 out of 5) for severe weather, so there is lower confidence that storms will become severe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rain-chances-this-week.png#.png\" alt=\"rain-chances-this-week.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Rain chances over the next six days<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>After this weekend, Monday and Tuesday will be mostly sunny, with highs in the low 70s Monday and then back in the low 80s Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday will be the same as Tuesday during the day before our next rain chance arrives late in the evening and continues for the rest of the work week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789218255_698_7-day.png#.png\" alt=\"7-day.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  7-day forecast: Sept. 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is a First Alert Weather Day with heavy downpours and storms leading to possible flash flooding from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,914,913],"class_list":["post-284486","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\/284486","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=284486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}