{"id":316324,"date":"2026-05-15T00:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316324\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:35:19","slug":"fire-weather-watch-issued-for-northern-ca-first-of-year-for-sacramento-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316324\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire weather watch issued for Northern CA, first of year for Sacramento area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/fire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:fire weather watch issued by the National Weather Service;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;fire weather watch issued by the National Weather Service&quot;}\" class=\"link \">fire weather watch issued by the National Weather Service<\/a> is expected cover much of California\u2019s Central Valley beginning this weekend, with gusty winds and low humidity in the forecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire weather watch will go into effect at 3 a.m. Saturday and conclude at 8 p.m. Monday, according to the weather service. Meteorologist Dakari Anderson of the weather service said this is the Sacramento area\u2019s first fire weather watch of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This weekend\u2019s watch stretches north to Redding and south past Bakersfield, west to Vallejo and east toward Auburn, including Sacramento, Fresno, Stockton and Modesto.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The weather service says winds could reach 35 miles per hour Saturday and Sunday. That could increase to 50 mph near the Sacramento\u2013San Joaquin River Delta. Humidity could be 20% or less Saturday, dropping to less than 15% Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Temperatures could see a high of 83 degrees Saturday and 82 degrees on Sunday, according to the weather service. Temperatures may increase Monday to 88 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There are<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:currently four active wildfires in California;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;currently four active wildfires in California&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> currently four active wildfires in California<\/a>. The largest fire is the Neuralia Fire in Kern County, spanning nearly 1,200 acres. The smallest is the River Fire in Siskiyou County that spans 16 acres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire weather watch issued by the National Weather Service is expected cover much of California\u2019s Central Valley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[132321,132322,132320,1931,60,121,873,123,122],"class_list":["post-316324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-californias-central-valley","tag-dakari-anderson","tag-fire-weather-watch","tag-gusty-winds","tag-national-weather-service","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-area","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316324","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=316324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}