{"id":220991,"date":"2026-03-15T17:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220991\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:17:06","slug":"northern-california-could-see-90-degrees-including-redding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220991\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern California could see 90 degrees, including Redding"},"content":{"rendered":"

An unseasonable March heat wave is heading for Sacramento and other Northern California communities this week, according to the National Weather Service forecast.<\/p>\n

Temperatures into the 90s<\/a> are expected through next weekend, the agency said.<\/p>\n

Models show a high-pressure ridge<\/a> descending over the West, bringing high heat and low precipitation across the region, meteorologist Jacob Spender told The Sacramento Bee.<\/p>\n

Temperatures may reach up to 15 degrees higher than normal for March, Spender said.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the forecast for Sacramento?<\/p>\n

Sacramento is expected to see highs of 87 degrees Monday and 89 degrees Tuesday. Starting Wednesdays, temperatures are forecast to rise into the 90s throughout the rest of the week.<\/p>\n

Temperatures of 92 degrees are forecast Wednesday, with 93 for Thursday and 94 on Friday. On Saturday, it\u2019s expected to be 91 degrees in Sacramento.<\/p>\n

What temperatures will other Northern California cities see?<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service forecast calls for temperatures in the 80s and 90s this week for Auburn, Chico, Marysville, Modesto, Red Bluff, Redding, Stockton and Vacaville.<\/p>\n

Modesto is forecast to see a high of 86 on Monday, with temperatures of 90 on Tuesday, 93 on Wednesday and Thursday, 94 on Friday and 93 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The highest temperatures in Northern California are expected to hit Redding, where 95 degrees is forecast on Friday.<\/p>\n

Will the heat break records?<\/p>\n

The incoming heat wave has the chance to break long-standing records, according to Spender.<\/p>\n

Various cities across the state may see their earliest 90-degree days ever, weather service data indicated.<\/p>\n

In Sacramento, the earliest day of the year the city has experienced 90 degree highs was April 6, 1989. Modesto could see a 66-year record broken, as its earliest ever 90-degree day was April 4, 1960.<\/p>\n

Redding may just barely break a 112-year record. The city\u2019s earliest recorded day with 90 degree high temperatures was March 17, 1914.<\/p>\n

The Bee\u2019s Camila Pedrosa contributed to this story.<\/p>\n

Loading\u2026<\/p>\n

Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Don Sweeney<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Don Sweeney has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for more than 35 years. He is a service reporter based at The Sacramento Bee.\n <\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

Camila Pedrosa<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Camila Pedrosa is a service journalism reporter at The Sacramento Bee. She previously worked as a summer reporting intern for The Bee and reported in Phoenix and Washington, D.C. She graduated from Arizona State University with a master\u2019s degree in mass communication.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unseasonable March heat wave is heading for Sacramento and other Northern California communities this week, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[101063,60,101062,121,123,101061,122],"class_list":["post-220991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-march-high-temperatures","tag-national-weather-service","tag-northern-california-heat","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-heat-wave","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220991","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=220991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}