{"id":226922,"date":"2026-03-19T13:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/226922\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:34:17","slug":"wednesday-set-a-new-monthly-temperature-record-heat-remains-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/226922\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday set a new monthly temperature record; heat remains Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning and happy Thursday, Kern County. <\/p>\n<p>Our early stretch of heat has already broken records. Tuesday set a new daily high temperature record in Bakersfield, and Wednesday set both a new daily and monthly record. Yes, Bakersfield officially saw the hottest March day in recorded history: 95 degrees. <\/p>\n<p>The heat remains through Saturday as a strong area of high pressure remains in control of the west&#8217;s weather. Bakersfield will stay in the 90s through Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>We see a slight cool down Sunday, but it won&#8217;t be overly dramatic. Bakersfield will be in the mid-80s Sunday. By the middle of next week, we&#8217;re likely to stay in the 80s. <\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning and happy Thursday, Kern County. Our early stretch of heat has already broken records. Tuesday set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[692,151,153,152,693,694,19],"class_list":["post-226922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-23abc","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-weather","tag-kero","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226922","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=226922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}