{"id":990463,"date":"2026-08-09T05:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/990463\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T05:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:46:16","slug":"strong-storms-affect-areas-north-of-phoenix-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/990463\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong storms affect areas north of Phoenix metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PEORIA, AZ (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A few clusters of strong storms formed over far northwestern Maricopa County Saturday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">8 August 2026 8:30 PM MST: A few clusters of strong storms have formed over Southern Yavapai and far Northwestern Maricopa County and are trending west southwestward with time. Expect strong, gusty winds with leading outflows visible on radar, and possibly blowing dust. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/azwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#azwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/od5EJtDFes\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/od5EJtDFes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Phoenix (@NWSPhoenix) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSPhoenix\/status\/2086294514332025026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The National Weather Service warned anyone on Lake Pleasant to prepare for gusty winds due to an outflow boundary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/weather\/radar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/weather\/radar\/\"><b>Check the live radar here<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">High winds could capsize boats and frequent lightning can be dangerous for anyone on the water. Officials urged recreators to keep a close eye on the weather.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">8 August 2026 7:45 PM MST: Boaters or campers on\/near Lake Pleasant, strong thunderstorms to the north will send gusty outflow winds over the Lake shortly. Storms are developing in the vicinity; beware of dangerous cloud to ground lightning! <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/azwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#azwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GsRPbWPhty\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/GsRPbWPhty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Phoenix (@NWSPhoenix) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSPhoenix\/status\/2086282613212209476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PEORIA, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 A few clusters of strong storms formed over far northwestern Maricopa County Saturday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":401929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,253655,397181,38673,397183,397182,1589,7183,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-990463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-lake-pleasant","tag-lake-pleasant-storm","tag-monsoon","tag-national-weather-service-phoenix","tag-outflow-boundary","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990463","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=990463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}