{"id":357651,"date":"2026-06-12T10:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357651\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:03:22","slug":"news-12-long-island-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357651\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It was hot all across Long Island Thursday, and many people were trying to find ways to stay cool &#8212; from splash pads to cooling centers to a trip to the beach.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe were sweltering,\u201d said Angelo Rega, of Island Park. \u201cSo it was nice to get in the cold water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Temperatures and humidity were high Thursday, driving people indoors or to the water.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThe AC broke down, and I was sitting there sweating,\u201d said Joseph Kogan, of Hewlett. \u201cI had to come to the beach today, with my beautiful friends over here and make the most of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">People in Long Beach say the cool breeze was a welcome relief. And while the ocean itself was still too cold for some, others took full advantage of any opportunity to beat the heat.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Others say they want to enjoy the hot weather while they still can.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cTake advantage of it,\u201d Rega said. \u201cBecause before you know it, we&#8217;re going to be seeing snow again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was hot all across Long Island Thursday, and many people were trying to find ways to stay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-357651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357651","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=357651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}