{"id":339723,"date":"2026-05-31T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339723\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:00:41","slug":"weekend-forecast-calms-after-chilly-stormy-week-across-kern-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339723\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend forecast calms after chilly, stormy week across Kern County"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 It’s been a weird week of weather as an unseasonably potent and slow-moving weather system dominated our forecasts.<\/p>\n

Consistently colder than typical temperatures, strong winds and wet-at-times conditions made it feel more like early April than late May.<\/p>\n

Thursday, Bakersfield set an all-time “low maximum reading” in Bakersfield for the date with a 66 degree high being lower than the previous one<\/p>\n

of 67 set back in 1953. As an example of just how cold the air was we were watching snow coming down and covering the ground during our 5 and 6 pm newscasts from our Breckenridge cam in the mountains east of town.<\/p>\n

But, Wednesday took the cake as far as the surprise factor goes. As the 1st of 2 areas of embedded circulations moved into the area showers and thunderstorms developed across Kern County during the afternoon and evening. Drenching downpours interrupted a Wasco graduation ceremony.<\/a><\/p>\n

To our south, a small convective shower that wasn’t even associated with any lightning popped out a waterspout just feet from the shore of an L.A. area beach!<\/p>\n

\"CREDIT:<\/p>\n

CREDIT: Alex & Siegrun Smith<\/p>\n

This weekend looks gorgeous with a weather scene that is much quieter compared to recent days. Saturday’s temperatures while warming up even more are still expected to land just shy of the average high.<\/p>\n

Enjoy and have a wonderful weekend!<\/p>\n

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Chief Meteorologist Ilya Neyman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 It’s been a weird week of weather as an unseasonably potent and slow-moving weather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-339723","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\/339723","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=339723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}