The relentless heat wave baking the Bay Area and Northern California, originally expected to peak on Tuesday of this week, will last into the weekend, forecasters said Friday.

The Bay Area faces a severe heat wave, with high temperatures predicted by NWS Sacramento and cooling not expected until late next week.

The end of this early autumn San Francisco Bay Area heat wave keeps getting pushed back. When the scorching weather first arrived Monday, forecasts indicated temperatures would drop by the end of the week, but the latest forecast shows Saturday and Sunday will still be hot, especially across inland areas, with widespread temperatures in the 90s.