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Pittsburgh to experience seasonable weather and dry conditions for most of the next week
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Saturday morning begins with slightly cooler and drier air moving into Western Pennsylvania following the passage of a cold front moving through the area this morning.
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That dry air will prevail for much of this weekend leading to mild days and cool nights. Highs will reach the upper 70s to near 80 with lows in the mid-50s to near 60 degrees. A few lake-effect showers may occur on Sunday afternoon over our northern counties, mainly north of I-80.
Most of next week will be dry outside of a passing weak weather system Monday night into Tuesday which will result in increasing clouds along with a few scattered showers.
The best chance of rain will be farther south into southwest Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, and northwest Maryland. We will have to watch for potential periods of wildfire smoke from Canada and the Pacific Northwest that could move into our area depending on the direction of the wind flow in the middle to upper atmosphere.
The dry stretch may end toward the end of next week with a slow-moving system approaching from the west bringing increased opportunities for showers and thunderstorms by late next Friday into the following Saturday.
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Viral video shows Morgan Wallen throwing fan’s phone
Country singer Morgan Wallen grabbed and threw a fan’s phone across the stage during his concert in Pittsburgh.
Hours before the second show of his two-night stint in Pittsburgh on June 6, Morgan Wallen canceled his show due to bad weather, a decision he said he and his team made after consulting Pittsburgh officials.
The storm that caused the cancellation ended up hitting Western Pennsylvania but left the city unscathed. Since the decision, Wallen has received backlash from fans and Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O’Connor, who claims Wallen’s team did not contact city officials before the decision to cancel the show.
“After talking with local officials and my team, there is no choice but to cancel tonight’s show due to severe adverse weather conditions expected throughout the rest of the day and night,” Wallen said in his post. “Safety for my fans and crew is the highest priority.”
The “I’m The Problem” singer added that tickets would be refunded.
Why exactly did Morgan Wallen cancel his Pittsburgh show?
Wallen canceled his show due to weather, but the storm he and his team believed would impact his concert ended up moving away from the city.
While the storm didn’t hit Pittsburgh, thousands of people across Western Pennsylvania lost power over the weekend due to high winds, severe storms, tornadoes and flash flooding on June 6, according to Action 4 News.
Fans also speculated that weather had nothing to do with the decision but instead had to do with Wallen throwing a security guard’s phone into the crowd the night before on June 5.
How did Morgan Wallen respond to the backlash?
Responding to the rumors and disgruntled fans, Wallen posted an Instagram story on June 6.
“I’ve been seeing a lot of nonsense about me that is simply not true, and I just wanted to clear the air,” Wallen started in his story post, reported by USA TODAY. “I think my true fans know that that’s not how I operate in general, but I had to say it.”
“This morning, my team walked on my bus, told me that they had been consulting with local officials, and that I should cancel my show in Pittsburgh (Saturday night),” he continued. “And I said, ‘Why?’ They said that there was gonna be strong winds in the area, and I said, ‘OK.’ So that’s what I did.”
“(T)he truth of the matter is, I have a large stage and in those conditions, it could become fatal to a lot of folks around it,” Wallen said. “So I did the best I could with the information I had in that moment.”
What did Pittsburgh’s mayor say about Morgan Wallen’s cancellation?
Following the cancellation, O’Connor sat down with local radio station KDKA on June 8 and disclosed that nobody from Wallen’s team reached out to city officials for consultation on their decision.
“There was no contact to Public Safety or my administration so however the artist and his team picked to not have the show, that was on them, there was no consulting for Public Safety or the City of Pittsburgh,” said O’Connor.
“If you’re going to say that you consulted . . . that’s one story, we, again, had no record of that from public safety director, all the way down,” he added.
Wallen nor any members of his team have responded to Mayor O’Connor’s claims.
Wallen is not scheduled to come to Nashville on the remainder of his current “I’m The Problem Tour.”
Peter Burditt covers trending news and service journalism for The Tennessean. Contact him at PBurditt@nashvill.gannett.com
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One person is dead after a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood on Wednesday night.
Pittsburgh Public Safety said officers were called to the 1200 block of Pritchard Street around 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday for reports of a shooting. At the scene, authorities said they found a man inside a home with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. He was not identified as of Wednesday night.
Witnesses told investigators that the victim and another man were involved in an altercation before the shooting, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety. The other man was detained and taken to the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police headquarters for questioning.
Police are investigating the deadly shooting. No other information was released on Wednesday, including whether the two men knew each other.
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