{"id":673281,"date":"2026-03-22T07:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/673281\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T07:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:33:19","slug":"severe-storms-threaten-philadelphia-region-sunday-afternoon-heres-the-weather-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/673281\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe storms threaten Philadelphia region Sunday afternoon. Here&#8217;s the weather forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Severe weather potential ramps up Sunday afternoon into the evening as showers and thunderstorms develop from northwest to southeast, with the greatest risk roughly between 4:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The main threats look to be damaging wind gusts and some large hail, especially from about the I-95 corridor north and west, though a brief isolated severe storm cannot be ruled out elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/321266.png#.png\" alt=\"Severe storms threaten Philadelphia region Sunday afternoon \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Heavy downpours may also lead to localized flooding in urban areas. By late Sunday night into Monday midday, a strong cold front clears the region, ending the storms and bringing gusty winds with falling temperatures through the day.<\/p>\n<p>NEXT big weather change<\/p>\n<p>A severe threat Sunday afternoon\/evening through Monday morning is our Next Big Change. A clipper type system will pull a strong cold front across the region.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/321267.png#.png\" alt=\"Severe storms threaten Philadelphia region Sunday afternoon \" height=\"343\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>A few strong to severe storms could develop with heavy rain, hail, and isolated damaging winds. The tornado threat is currently low.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the cold front we drop 20 degrees to the low 50&#8217;s Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Early forecast for Phillies home opener<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies kick off the season Thursday vs. the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can expect mostly cloudy skies and mild with temperatures in the mid-60&#8217;s at first pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudy and near 60 at the final out. Rain is possible later that night with winds from the southwest at 10-15 mph.<\/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\/321261.png#.png\" alt=\"Severe storms threaten Philadelphia region Sunday afternoon \" height=\"347\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday: NEXT Weather Alert for late storms.<\/strong>\u00a0High 73, low 44.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday: NEXT Weather Alert for a.m. storms.<\/strong>\u00a0High 53, low 50.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday:\u00a0<\/strong>Sunny and chilly. High 50, low 32.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday:\u00a0<\/strong>Cloud, some sun. High 58, low 36.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday:\u00a0<\/strong>Mostly cloudy. High 68, low 46.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday:\u00a0<\/strong>Clouds, some sun. High 55, low 52.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday:\u00a0<\/strong>Partly cloudy. High 48, low 31. \u00a0<\/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":"Severe weather potential ramps up Sunday afternoon into the evening as showers and thunderstorms develop from northwest to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":673282,"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-673281","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\/116271671533482314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673281","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=673281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}