{"id":202198,"date":"2026-03-13T00:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/202198\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T00:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:45:08","slug":"what-residents-should-know-about-el-pasos-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/202198\/","title":{"rendered":"What Residents Should Know About El Paso&#8217;s Heat Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter, (the whole day and a half of it we got), is over in El Paso and don&#8217;t count on any spring. Forget early summer too, Mother Nature&#8217;s going straight to hot in the 915.<\/p>\n<p>Mama Nature needs to go get her thyroid checked or something, she&#8217;s been way wacky lately. Now it looks like she&#8217;s decided to<a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/el-paso-temperature-heat-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> fast track summer for the Borderland<\/a>. The impending windy season is bad enough &#8230; now, it looks like it&#8217;s going to be a blistering hot <a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/el-paso-windy-season-safety-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;sand blast&#8221; in El Chuco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The last few days have been very spring-like for us, we even got a nice little spring shower the other day. Now though, we&#8217;re fast forwarding to high summer and it should have a <a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/el-paso-windy-season-safety-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">very windy start<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso Will Get Hot Quick<\/p>\n<p>The heat, which is already building in the Southwest, comes courtesy of a strong area of high pressure, or ridge in the upper atmosphere, also known as a heat dome. This weather feature is likely to park over the West without moving much for up to two weeks. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/12\/weather\/record-heat-west-eastern-cold-whiplash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not all either, we&#8217;re looking at potentially record setting heat. If you recall, we&#8217;ve already set records over the last few summers. The weather is basically now saying; &#8220;you thought that was bad&#8221;? &#8220;Hold my, (hot ass), beer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>How Hot Will Summer Be In The Southwest And How Soon?<\/p>\n<p>Very and now.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service is warning residents of the Southwest in particular to prepare for unprecedented \u2014 and potentially deadly \u2014 March temperatures during what will be a long duration heat wave. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/12\/weather\/record-heat-west-eastern-cold-whiplash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/el-pasos-craziest-weather-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso&#8217;s Craziest Weather Extremes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure your AC is in good working order, remember to drink lots of water and stay inside as much as possible; here we go. Check on friends and neighbors, especially the elderly and watch out for your pets too. For more heat safety tips click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/heat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Summer Safety Tips For Texas Pets <\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/keyj.com\/author\/chazmcguire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chaz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heat Safety Tips from the National Weather Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winter, (the whole day and a half of it we got), is over in El Paso and don&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,143,223,4492,41334],"class_list":["post-202198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-local-el-paso","tag-news","tag-public-service-charity","tag-science-internet-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}