{"id":230214,"date":"2026-03-21T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230214\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:23:11","slug":"bakersfield-stays-in-summer-like-heat-after-record-95-degree-march-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230214\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield stays in summer-like heat after record 95-degree March day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Spring began Friday but our temperatures this week were unbelievably summer-like.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b23527bf-0ac7-4b5a-8fc2-31bc1fb3c897-Spring.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The highlight came on Wednesday when Bakersfield was just one of MANY cities across the West to set an ALL-TIME record high for the month of March with Meadows Field topping out at 95. Prior to that it had only gotten up to 94 a total of 3 times over the past 133 years of record keeping during this month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ad69422e-8b43-401b-8559-6f98457dd5b1-HOTMARCH.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Please take every precaution as far as children and vehicles with these temperatures. As the National Weather Service&#8217;s saying goes &#8220;look before you lock&#8221;. A child&#8217;s body temperature can rise 3 to 5 times faster than that of an adult and the heat increases quickly and dangerously in a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cce73af1-028e-455d-b630-4e1966531f5c-HotCarInfoIN.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The heat is forecast to stay for another day, and if Bakersfield breaks into the 90s again it&#8217;ll break yet another record which was 89 set back in 1928. Please practice heat safety out there and have a great weekend!<\/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 Spring began Friday but our temperatures this week were unbelievably summer-like. The highlight came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-230214","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\/230214","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=230214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}