{"id":440709,"date":"2026-08-22T21:14:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440709\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T21:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:14:29","slug":"triple-digit-heat-persists-as-monsoonal-storms-shift-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440709\/","title":{"rendered":"Triple-digit heat persists as monsoonal storms shift away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The theme with the week that was featured a rise in temperatures, with daily readings coming in a bit higher than the computer models had previously suggested earlier on.<\/p>\n<p>The hottest day of the week for some areas saw numbers well into the triple digits from the South Valley, to the Kern River Valley and obviously the deserts too.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/74f84d69-1a28-4f0f-9924-8751e71344f9-AFTERNOONHIGHSIN.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As the upper-level high moved into the 4 Corners Region the atmospheric flow turned southeasterly, which brought a monsoonal push back into parts of southeastern California as well.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend that heat-high looks to be centered over the Southwest US, but our atmospheric flow may turn more south-southwesterly, shifting the monsoonal moisture north and east of our area. Afternoon rumblers might pop-off either over the High Sierra, or even further east of those slopes. Otherwise the heat will continue.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7d1c488d-45c6-42e2-9ba7-3685903993f5-lookingahead.JPG\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Stay safe and have a great weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Chief Meteorologist Ilya Neyman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The theme with the week that was featured a rise in temperatures, with daily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-440709","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\/440709","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=440709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}