{"id":220055,"date":"2026-03-14T23:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220055\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T23:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:13:17","slug":"second-high-pressure-ridge-to-build-next-week-pushing-kern-county-temperatures-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220055\/","title":{"rendered":"Second high-pressure ridge to build next week, pushing Kern County temperatures higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 As the part of the Pacific Ocean closest to our area continues to be a high-pressure factory, there is and has been no sign of storminess for close to a month. Instead, quiet weather has been the rule across southcentral California, only interrupted a few times by a few clouds, sprinkles and occasionally windy conditions. It&#8217;s hard to believe that we&#8217;re still in what is considered the &#8220;rainy season&#8221; for this part of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Summer-like heat has hit SoCal already, with widespread 90s blanketing millions of residents just over the county line, as a rare and long-lasting hot spell for this time of year has begun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/98c94ad9-2450-4ae9-a41c-160deca4adda-lookingahead1.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday saw afternoon temps back into the 90s for many of the same areas as the first upper-level ridge of high pressure, along with a surface high to the north, form enough offshore flow to further heat up the air on the coastal-facing sides of the mountain ranges.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday may see a &#8220;slight&#8221; reprieve in temps over the Southland and even a tiny dip in highs over Kern County as the first ridge slides away.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting in the wings will be a second upper-level high that is currently progged to build in from the tail-end of the weekend on into next week. It&#8217;s this high that will be part of the atmospheric equation to send Kern County temperatures real high. Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Chief Meteorologist Ilya Neyman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 As the part of the Pacific Ocean closest to our area continues to be a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-220055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220055","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=220055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}