{"id":658779,"date":"2026-03-16T03:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/658779\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T03:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:11:18","slug":"severe-storms-monday-in-philadelphia-region-could-bring-tornadoes-damaging-winds-heavy-rain-heres-the-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/658779\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe storms Monday in Philadelphia region could bring tornadoes, damaging winds, heavy rain. Here&#8217;s the forecast."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strong cold front will move through Monday into the night, bringing the potential for strong to severe thunderstorms across the Philadelphia region. The main concern is damaging wind, but a few brief tornadoes and pockets of heavy rain that could cause localized flash flooding are also possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even outside of storms, it will be windy with gusts around 35 to 45 mph, especially closer to the coast.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest risk for severe weather looks to arrive late Monday afternoon through Monday evening as a line of storms develops along the approaching cold front. Some storms could produce damaging wind gusts and a brief tornado, especially if a few stronger cells form within the line.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/315265.png#.png\" alt=\"315265.png \" height=\"355\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>  NEXT big weather changes<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, gusty south winds push temperatures to the upper 60s and low 70s. It will be mostly cloudy with scattered showers and isolated rumbles in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Late Monday afternoon, an extremely strong cold front approaches, triggering pockets of heavy rain and severe storms during the evening.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/315268.png#.png\" alt=\"315268.png \" height=\"348\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Significant threats include damaging straight-line winds of 50-70 mph, heavy rain with localized flooding and tornadoes. 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>Here&#8217;s your 7-day forecast:<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/315261.png#.png\" alt=\"315261.png \" height=\"345\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday: NEXT Weather Alert for Storms.<\/strong>\u00a0High 67, low 47.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday: NEXT Weather Alert for cold.\u00a0<\/strong>High 42, 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 51, low 30.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday:\u00a0<\/strong>Mostly sunny. High 57, low 37.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday:\u00a0<\/strong>Clouds, some sun. High 55, low 40.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday:\u00a0<\/strong>Maybe a shower? High 50, low 35.<\/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>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strong cold front will move through Monday into the night, bringing the potential for strong to severe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":658780,"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-658779","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\/116236667218112062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658779","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=658779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}