{"id":110549,"date":"2025-12-28T03:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110549\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T03:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:45:15","slug":"kern-county-sees-record-breaking-heat-and-rainfall-in-back-to-back-weather-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110549\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County sees record-breaking heat and rainfall in back-to-back weather events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 We certainly had a busy and changeable week of weather across Kern County including back-to-back record-breaking weather days. Following weeks of chilly temperatures with Tule fog and cloud cover a major pattern change blew into the area with warm ahead of the storm. On Tuesday Bakersfield set a new record high temperature for the date of 74, breaking the old one of 73 which was set back in 1955.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/148a01a3-e543-4e39-9b1d-faf1d59600d1-RecordTemperature.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The very next day the rains came in and Bakersfield went on to set a new record rainfall amount for that day of 0.97&#8243;, beating the old record of 0.75&#8243; that was set back in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3e347688-5ee7-4c9a-bc40-6bbb81725a19-RecordRainfall.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Southern California got absolutely swamped with widespread flooding and debris flows.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The forecast for this weekend: quieter but cool. Some leftover spotty showers are still possible on Saturday but overall things should progressively wind on down. South Valley highs might struggle to get mild, as chilly air should settle on in across the low elevations. Afternoon highs may straddle the upper 40s to the low 50s. So dress warm out there and have a great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 We certainly had a busy and changeable week of weather across Kern County including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-110549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}