{"id":158599,"date":"2026-03-09T23:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/158599\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:52:09","slug":"nyers-bask-in-warm-spell-after-frigid-winter-but-it-wont-last-for-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/158599\/","title":{"rendered":"NYers bask in warm spell after frigid winter \u2014 but it won’t last for long"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Yorkers are basking in a warm spell that snapped a chilly stretch<\/a> not felt in the city since 1982 \u2013 but they shouldn\u2019t expect the break to last, with temps set to drop again by the end of the week.<\/p>\n

Temperatures are expected to hit as high as 70 degrees Tuesday and again be in the mid-60s Wednesday.<\/p>\n

By Monday afternoon, Central Park reached 71 degrees \u2013 the first time since Oct. 19 that it clocked 70, AccuWeather senior meteorologist Matt Benz told The Post on Monday.<\/p>\n

But the mercury will soon drop \u2014 to the mid-50s or lower to wrap up the work week, the expert said.<\/p>\n

Thursday will have a high of 57 degrees with a chance of rain, while Friday will dip to 48 degrees, according to the forecast. The weekend will see high temps in the mid-50s.<\/p>\n

\"PeopleVisitors to Bryant Park enjoyed the warm weather. James Messerschmidt for the NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cSo much cooler compared to [Monday] and [Tuesday] but still looking at temperatures above average for this time of year at least through Thursday and then again for Saturday and Sunday,\u201d Benz said. <\/p>\n

The consecutive days of unseasonably warm weather that started Sunday broke a streak of 118 days in which Central Park faced temps that were lower than 60 degrees, Benz said.<\/p>\n

The last time it was under 60 degrees that many days in a row was 1982, he noted.<\/p>\n

The longest streak of sub-60 degrees days ever recorded was 151 days, which took place in 1877, according to Benz.<\/p>\n

The warm weather won\u2019t come back by next week, and things will actually be even chillier by the middle of next week, the meteorologist said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AA Bryant Park visitor rolled up his pants. James Messerschmidt for the NY Post<\/p>\n

Temps might only reach as high as 39 degrees by next Wednesday and stay in the 40s the rest of next week, according to the extended forecast.<\/a><\/p>\n

The average temperature for early March is around 47 degrees, while the end of the month is 55 degrees, according to AccuWeather.<\/p>\n

The Big Apple has faced an unbearably frigid<\/a> winter, including nearly 10 straight days of below-freezing<\/a> weather and two major snowstorms<\/a> that battered the five boroughs.<\/p>\n

Public-school students were even treated to a rare snow day as a result of the piles of snow.<\/a><\/p>\n

The first official day of spring is March 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yorkers are basking in a warm spell that snapped a chilly stretch not felt in the city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[40096,98,100,99,57,9,24,63,58,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-158599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-accuweather","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}