{"id":218912,"date":"2026-03-14T00:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/218912\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:56:10","slug":"week-of-extreme-heat-on-the-way-in-orange-county-nws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/218912\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Of Extreme Heat On The Way In Orange County: NWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CA \u2014 Get ready for a hot Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day, Orange County: an Extreme Heat Watch is forecasted for your region from Monday, March 16 through Friday, March 20. <\/p>\n<p>Inland Orange County residents can expect temperatures up to 100 degrees throughout the heat watch, according to the National Weather Service. <\/p>\n<p>Coastal Orange County residents can expect temperatures ranging from 85 to 90 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The greatest warming will begin in these areas by Monday and Tuesday, with highs nearing 100 degrees by Tuesday for the valleys of Orange and San Diego counties,&#8221; the NWS wrote in a statement. &#8220;Please use this time to prepare for the incoming heat by making sure you have enough water and products to keep cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The coastal areas will see a tougher forecast as cool westerly winds off the ocean will have a large effect on the temperatures within a mile or so from the coast, where some areas may stay much cooler,&#8221; the statement said. <\/p>\n<p>Weather experts said residents can expect the hottest days to fall on Thursday and Friday, with temperatures likely to hit 100 degrees in inland Orange County.<\/p>\n<p>The Extreme Heat Watch comes after another hot week and a slightly cooler weekend in Orange County.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County residents were urged to watch for heat-related illnesses, drink plenty of fluids, and stay out of the sun. <\/p>\n<p>MORE ORANGE COUNTY NEWS: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CA \u2014 Get ready for a hot Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day, Orange County: an Extreme Heat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-218912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218912","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=218912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}