Severe thunderstorm watch issued for northern parts of Pittsburgh area
A extreme thunderstorm watch has been issued for the northern half of the Pittsburgh area till 1 am on Wednesday.
The watch covers Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Indiana and Lawrence counties in addition to different parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. Parts of Mercer and Lawrence counties are underneath a flash flood warning till 1:30 am on Wednesday, whereas parts of Allegheny, Washington and Westmoreland counties are underneath a extreme thunderstorm warning till 12:30 am on Wednesday.
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Strong to extreme storms are doable between 7 pm and a pair of am The northern half of the Pittsburgh area is underneath a “slight risk” for extreme climate, which means scattered robust to extreme storms are doable with damaging winds, hail and an remoted twister not out of the query.
Storms will weaken as they transfer in however be sure you have a plan in place and gadgets charged as a result of in a single day quite a bit of folks will probably be asleep and probably woken up by these storms.
KDKA Weather Center 
As the month of March wraps up, the Pittsburgh area is sort of 7 levels above regular and picked up a little bit over 6 inches of precipitation, which can also be above regular. We might add a little bit extra onto that late Tuesday evening with a line of storms transferring in.
The probability of rain sticks round all week lengthy, however we have now some days the place we might get shut or contact 80 levels. There will probably be dry time to take pleasure in these hotter temperatures this week however hold the rain gear shut by.
Saturday appears to be the driest day this week with a low probability of rain however rain possibilities improve on Easter Sunday within the morning, and daytime temperatures sit within the mid to higher 50s as proper now.
