{"id":499359,"date":"2026-10-17T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499359\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:30:09","slug":"santa-ana-winds-ease-saturday-but-offshore-breezes-linger-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499359\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Ana winds ease Saturday, but offshore breezes linger early"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The first “Santa Ana wind” event of the season is winding down after a couple blustery days across Kern County. Thursday’s east\/northeasterly winds were confined to the mountains, the Kern River Valley and the desert, while Friday featured even stronger winds in these areas, and brisk breezes that made it into parts of the South Valley too.<\/p>\n

The highest measured wind gust in our area reached 64 mph along the ridge just west of the I-5 and south of the Grapevine at the very southern base of the Valley. Many other mountain valley locations experienced gusts from the 50 to 60 mph range on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, temperatures hit the low 90s around Bakersfield, and incredibly the mid to upper 90s along the coast from San Diego to San Luis Obispo!<\/p>\n

The phenomenon of heat at the beaches with offshore flow is due to the compression of the air that swoops down mountains and warms upon descent. That is also why some of the highest readings of the year occur this time of year along the California coastline.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s forecast features a lessening of the gusty conditions, but easterly breezes are still likely, especially early on as enough of an offshore push keeps a much more modest Santa Ana effect in play for one more day.<\/p>\n

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The warmth could linger for another couple of days until bigger changes head this way in the form of a storm that is set to develop over the eastern north Pacific Ocean. At this time it appears that the midweek timeframe will be the one to watch.<\/p>\n

Have a wonderful weekend!<\/p>\n

Chief Meteorologist Ilya Neyman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The first “Santa Ana wind” event of the season is winding down after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-499359","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\/499359","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=499359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}