{"id":656693,"date":"2026-03-15T05:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/656693\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T05:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:16:24","slug":"mostly-cloudy-sunday-in-philadelphia-area-before-bitter-cold-st-patricks-day-heres-the-weather-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/656693\/","title":{"rendered":"Mostly cloudy Sunday in Philadelphia area before bitter cold St. Patrick&#8217;s Day. Here&#8217;s the weather forecast."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NEXT Weather team is tracking strong to severe storms hitting the Philadelphia region Monday evening and night.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/314265.png#.png\" alt=\"Here's the weather forecast. \" height=\"348\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Before then, Sunday will be mostly cloudy, breezy and mild with showers at night and a high of 57 degrees. Expect thickening clouds overnight into Sunday, with a bit of a breeze. By Sunday afternoon, we&#8217;ll see mostly cloudy skies along with mild temperatures. Showers will begin to move in mainly after sunset.<\/p>\n<p>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade weather<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 a.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>Sunday skies will be mostly cloudy with temperatures in the high 40s<\/p>\n<p><strong>Noon: <\/strong>We&#8217;re<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>pushing 50 by the start of the parade.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/z-st-patricks-day-parade.png#.png\" alt=\"z-st-patricks-day-parade.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3 p.m.:<\/strong> As the parade finishes, around temperatures will reach 56.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday isn&#8217;t the luckiest weather wise either as wind picks up and temps drop for St. Patrick&#8217;s Day. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NEXT big weather change<\/p>\n<p>Monday and Tuesday we rinse and repeat our one-two punch of severe storms and winter blast, prompting our weather team to issue a NEXT Weather Alert for both days.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/next-alert-full.png#.png\" alt=\"next-alert-full.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, a gusty south wind pushes temperatures to the upper 60s and low 70s. It will be mostly cloudy, with scattered showers early in the morning and isolated T-storms at noon.<\/p>\n<p>Late Monday afternoon, an extremely strong cold front approaches, triggering pockets of heavy rain and strong to severe storms during the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Damaging winds, large hail, localized flooding, and brief isolated tornadoes are all possible at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the front, another blast of cold spreads across the region with a wintry mix and wet snow late Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Highs on Tuesday (St. Patrick&#8217;s Day) will be in the 30s with gusty winds creating a wind chill in the 20s.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mon-4pm.png#.png\" alt=\"St. Patrick's Day parade weather \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>  Here&#8217;s your 7-day forecast:<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/314261.png#.png\" alt=\"Here's the weather forecast. \" height=\"343\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday:\u00a0<\/strong>Cloudy and mild. High 57, low 36.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday: NEXT Weather Alert for Storms.<\/strong> High 68, low 48.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday: NEXT Weather Alert for cold.\u00a0<\/strong>High 38, low 32.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday:\u00a0<\/strong>Partly cloudy. High 41, low 25.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday:\u00a0<\/strong>Partly cloudy. High 53, low 31.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday:\u00a0<\/strong>Mostly sunny. High 67, low 36.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday:\u00a0<\/strong>Chance of showers. High 53, low 39.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/weather\/next-weather-radar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">NEXT Weather Radars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Hourly Forecast<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NEXT Weather team is tracking strong to severe storms hitting the Philadelphia region Monday evening and night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":656694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,905,401,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,8583,7160],"class_list":{"0":"post-656693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-delaware","10":"tag-new-jersey","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-weather-blogs","21":"tag-weather-forecast"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116231496706295782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}