{"id":221894,"date":"2026-03-16T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221894\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:23:29","slug":"winter-heat-wave-pushes-long-beach-into-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221894\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter heat wave pushes Long Beach into 90s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KABC\"<\/a>Fri, March 13, 2026 at 11:01 PM UTC\"\"<\/p>\n

People looking to escape rising inland temperatures this week may find little relief down by the beach as unseasonably warm weather continues to push beach communities into summerlike conditions.<\/p>\n

By midday Friday, temperatures in Long Beach were nearing 80 degrees. The city tied a record high of 92 degrees on Thursday, despite spring still being a week away.<\/p>\n

“I love it. I love summer. I am a summer girl. I don’t like the cold. I get sick in the cold so I love it,” said Neftaly Lara of Jurupa Valley.<\/p>\n

Long Beach typically sees temperatures in the upper 60s to low 70s this time of year. But after Thursday’s heat, forecasters expect even warmer conditions next week.<\/p>\n

“I mean it’s a little weird… you don’t know what you’re going to get,” said Riverside resident Daniela Uriostegui.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to be honest, it’s crazy. It should be cold, I love my winter outfits, but I love summer but I’m sad right now,” said Emily Reyes of Santa Ana.<\/p>\n

With the winter heat wave expected to linger, some coastal residents have already begun adjusting how they stay cool at home.<\/p>\n

“I’m doing well. Because I have fans… the fans on,” said Connie Patterson of Long Beach.<\/p>\n

The warm stretch is expected to continue into next week as Southern California heads toward the official start of spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, March 13, 2026 at 11:01 PM UTC People looking to escape rising inland temperatures this week may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[101395,131,133,132,1078],"class_list":["post-221894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach-communities","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-temperatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221894","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=221894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}