Kern County Weather Conditions, Closures and Alerts

100°

Fair

Feels like: 97°

Hi: -°

Lo: 77°

Humidity: 18%

Barometer: 29.4 in

Dew Point: 50°

Sunrise: 6:17 AM

Sunset: 7:42 PM

Fri 08/17

Clear

-° / 77°

Sat 08/18

Sunny

104° / 76°

Sun 08/19

Sunny

104° / 75°

Mon 08/20

Sunny

104° / 73°

Tue 08/21

Sunny

100° / 72°

Wed 08/22

Mostly Sunny

100° / 73°

20%

Thu 08/23

Sunny

101° / 73°

Fri 08/24

Sunny

99° / 71°

Daily Forecast Hourly Forecast

We will be back to the triple digits this weekend!

KERO

Monsoonal moisture was indeed able to bring some scattered showers to the Kern County desert yesterday afternoon and evening with some building clouds as expected over our mountain communities. Bakersfield topped out at 99 degrees, which is still above our average of 96, but that looks to be the last of the 90s for a while.

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