{"id":237324,"date":"2025-10-19T23:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237324\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:30:06","slug":"winds-could-reach-50-mph-sunday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237324\/","title":{"rendered":"Winds could reach 50 mph Sunday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh region could be in for wind gusts as strong as 50 mph Sunday afternoon, according to meteorologists.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy showers are moving through the eastern portion of Ohio and are expected to hit the Allegheny County area at about 3 p.m., said Andrew Kienzle, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmbedded in that line, we\u2019re seeing gusts of 45 mph,\u201d Kienzle said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, wind gusts in the Pittsburgh area ranged anywhere from 30 to 45 mph, Kienzle said. From about 3 to 4:30 p.m., gusts could get as high as 50 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Kienzle predicts a lull in winds from at about 4:30 or 5 p.m.. Gusts will pick up at about 7 or 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Up to an inch of rain is possible, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/severe-weather-alert-day-strong-winds-with-afternoon-rain\/69083537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TribLive news partner WTAE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kienzle predicts clearer skies Monday, but winds to remain elevated at around 25 to 30 mph. Monday\u2019s high is in the 60s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll get rid of the rain, but it\u2019ll sill be gusty,\u201d Kienzle said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">Kellen Stepler is a TribLive reporter covering the Allegheny Valley and Burrell school districts and surrounding areas. He joined the Trib in April 2023. He can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/local\/regional\/winds-could-reach-50-mph-sunday-afternoon\/mailto:kstepler@triblive.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kstepler@triblive.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh region could be in for wind gusts as strong as 50 mph Sunday afternoon, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-237324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}