{"id":228560,"date":"2026-03-20T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228560\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:50:08","slug":"official-start-of-spring-feels-like-summer-in-kern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228560\/","title":{"rendered":"Official start of &#8220;spring&#8221; feels like summer in Kern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning and happy Friday, Kern County. We officially start spring today, but temperatures will be well above average once again. We stay hot into Saturday with a slight dip down on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The March Equinox marks the official start of astronomical spring. As you know, we have felt very summer-like this week. <\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield has set new daily temperature records for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week. Wednesday also set a new monthly record temperature for March. <\/p>\n<p>Friday will stay hot. Bakersfield has a forecast high of 93, and the record for today is also 93. <\/p>\n<p>80s and 90s will be felt through the mountains and KRV, and some desert towns will near 100 degrees on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>By Saturday afternoon, winds will start to pick up in eastern Kern County. That&#8217;s a sign of a small shift in our weather pattern. <\/p>\n<p>Sunday, we expect a slight dip down in temperatures, with a forecast high of 85 in Bakersfield, and 70s and 80s in the mountains and KRV. <\/p>\n<p>Still above average, but slightly better than the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning and happy Friday, Kern County. We officially start spring today, but temperatures will be well above&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[692,151,153,152,693,694,19],"class_list":["post-228560","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\/228560","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=228560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}