{"id":391321,"date":"2026-07-09T00:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/391321\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T00:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:09:20","slug":"bay-area-could-see-its-first-monsoon-of-the-season-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/391321\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area Could See Its First Monsoon of the Season This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf any lightning does strike the ground, we may see more, easier fires start, especially since we\u2019re having warmer and drier conditions this week that are really serving to dry out our fuels,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties, as well as the East Bay, are most likely to see storms, Kennedy said. However, both the storms and their location are still up in the air, with more clarity coming over the next day or two.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we do still have some uncertainty about where and when thunderstorms are going to develop, I wouldn\u2019t fully take thunderstorms off the table for the rest of the Bay Area too,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this lower confidence, Kennedy encouraged residents to stay up to date on the forecast and stay aware of their surroundings, especially if they live in more rural, fire-prone areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIf any lightning does strike the ground, we may see more, easier fires start, especially since we\u2019re having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-391321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391321","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=391321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}