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CBS News
19-07-2025
- Climate
- CBS News
Pittsburgh's brief break from the heat and humid weather continues this weekend
Saturday morning begins with another mild morning across Western Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia under mostly cloudy skies and some patchy areas of fog. WEATHER LINKS: Current Conditions | School Closings & Delays | Submit Your Weather Photos The stationary front that has been in place across our area for the last 24 hours or so still remains across, draped across Northern West Virginia just south of the I-68 corridor, but will slowly lift back north today. A weak disturbance moving atop this boundary may lead some isolated to widely scattered storms late this morning through the early afternoon--mainly in the Laurel Highlands and Ridges. The rest of our area should be in the region of sinking air between the disturbance to our southeast and another system approaching our region from the Midwest. Highs today will be in the mid-80s. Overnight, the disturbance in the Midwest will start to head our way, and we'll give way to rising motion after sunset. This will lead to a complex of showers and storms rolling in from the west. This should be a weakening complex as it will be moving in at a time of day when instability will be decreasing. Overall trends in the models have been bringing this complex later and later, so it won't be until after midnight through around sunrise for the best chance of storms in Western Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia. The main threats with storms will be isolated severe wind gusts and generally sub-severe hail. With the relatively faster movement of storms, this should preclude a widespread flash flood threat, but locally heavy rainfall (isolated 1-2" amounts) is still expected. This complex of storms will exit Sunday morning, but the actual cold front doesn't look to pass through our area until 3-7 p.m. Additional isolated to scattered storms are possible with the frontal passage before substantially drier and cooler air moves in Sunday night into Monday morning. The best chance of showers and storms, which won't be that widespread, will generally be in our southern and southwest counties as the front reaches those locations during peak heating. Morning lows on Monday and Tuesday will be refreshing, with most of our area in the upper 50s to low 60s and highs in the upper 70s to low 80s, which is closer to normal for this time of year. This will force drier and comfortable air to move in early next week, leading to mostly sunny conditions on Monday and Tuesday and temperatures closer to normal for a change. It will heat up by mid to late next week with more humidity and storm chances by next Thursday, and especially towards Friday. Stay up to date with the KDKA Mobile App – which you can download here!
CBS News
16-06-2025
- Climate
- CBS News
West Virginia cleans up after historic and deadly flooding over weekend
Torrential rain on Saturday led to historic and deadly flooding in northern West Virginia. The flash flooding has killed at least six people and several people remain missing, authorities said. "And then it's just total chaos. Just mud and water. It just pours," Mary Brown of Ohio County said. Brown's home along Lumber Avenue in Overbrook is covered in mud and soaked after the devastating flash floods. "The night it happened, I took my dogs and went upstairs, took the curtains off the front window, and watched everything take place," Brown said. "Then you started seeing cars come down the creek, hit the bridge, and go under. You're never sure if people are in or not." Dive crews spent the day looking for those people still missing. A car was pulled from the debris that is clogging the Shilling Bridge over the Big Wheeling Creek, but it was empty. Mud, debris and destruction are everywhere you look. While KDKA's crew was at the scene of clean-up operations on Monday, a gentleman ran down the street asking for a flashlight because they had turned the power back on, and something in his basement had caught fire. The fire department responded to his home to help. "The furnace kept trying to turn on with the AC and everything, and then it started catching fire, I think. I don't know, smoking or something. So thank God I ran down there and grabbed people to come help." The area was flooded, and now crews are dealing with the potential of flames, just a basic idea of what's going on in Overbrook, one of the hardest hit areas. For the people of this little place, there is so much to clean up and much despair, but equal parts resolve and kindness. "There are people that have offered me money," resident Sandy Minor said. "When I walked over there this morning, this one lady was like 'I just wanna bless you.' I don't know this lady from a can of paint. ... That makes you cry."
