{"id":33506,"date":"2025-07-24T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33506\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:36:08","slug":"how-to-watch-perseid-meteor-shower-in-philly-del-pa-nj-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33506\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch Perseid Meteor Shower in Philly, Del., Pa., NJ \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/meteors-meteorites\/perseids\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/meteors-meteorites\/perseids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Perseid Meteor Shower<\/a> is underway! <\/p>\n<p>Starting on July 17th and continues through August 24th, this is arguably the best meteor shower of the year.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, warm summer nights make for comfortable viewing conditions and the duration of the shower means one cloudy night won&#8217;t ruin the entire show. <\/p>\n<p>While we can see the Perseids any given night through August 24th, the peak of the shower is August 12th and 13th. <\/p>\n<p>The Perseids are pieces of dust, rock and ice from the Comet Swift- Tuttle. <\/p>\n<p>As the Earth passes through the comet&#8217;s tail, these small pieces of debris burn up in our atmosphere with spectacular fireballs. <\/p>\n<p>By the time the shower peaks, we can see as many as 100 meteors per hour. <\/p>\n<p>For best viewing, darker environments away from the city are suggested. <\/p>\n<p>The best time each night for viewing is between midnight and dawn, but if you&#8217;re not a night owl, the Perseids are visible any night after 9 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Meteor-Shower-Template-v2-1588769624953-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night&#8217;s weather is ideal for viewing with a midnight temperature around 70 degrees and mostly clear skies. <\/p>\n<p>Thursday night will good as well, but storms Friday night will make for mostly cloudy skies through much of the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Perseid Meteor Shower is underway! Starting on July 17th and continues through August 24th, this is arguably&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[27900,79,193],"class_list":{"0":"post-33506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-first-alert-weather","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33506","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=33506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}