{"id":359617,"date":"2026-06-13T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T20:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359617\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T20:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T20:02:16","slug":"high-pressure-ridge-drives-soaring-temperatures-keeping-heat-in-place-across-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359617\/","title":{"rendered":"High-pressure ridge drives soaring temperatures, keeping heat in place across the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The heat is here, and it looks like it&#8217;ll stay for a while!<\/p>\n<p>A dominant ridge of high pressure has been helping push temperatures into high territory and this will continue over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9161e124-3b1e-4f3c-8251-03edcf4ce887-lookingahead1.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Please practice heat safety and always remember to &#8220;LOOK before you lock&#8221;. With today&#8217;s busy schedules and multiple things on people&#8217;s minds it&#8217;s not hard to unintentionally forget a child in a backseat of a car, especially if they fell asleep. This is extremely dangerous and can quickly become life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>A child&#8217;s body temperature increases 3 to 5 times faster than that of an adult. Even if it&#8217;s just 70 degrees outside, after 20 minutes the car&#8217;s interior rises to 99! When it&#8217;s 100 outdoors, your vehicle gets up to 119 in just 10 minutes. 20 minutes later it&#8217;s 134 inside your car!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d21576a4-8909-4472-9911-2a7e392e2e8e-HotCarInfoIN.png\"\/>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 The heat is here, and it looks like it&#8217;ll stay for a while! A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-359617","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\/359617","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=359617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}