the National Weather Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cHeat will be making headlines for much of the Eastern U.S. for the first half of the week,\u201d said the NWS.<\/p>\n
Sunbathers enjoying a day in Hoboken, N.J. last summer. Leonardo Munoz<\/p>\n
Carl Erickson, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather, told the Post: \u201cIt\u2019s going to be shock because it will happen so suddenly. The temperatures have been cool lately and it\u2019s usually in the low \u201970s in mid-May.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hottest days will be on May 19 and 20. The temperature on Tuesday is predicted to be 95 degrees, and 92 degrees on Wednesday, then by Thursday temperatures will begin dropping.\u201d<\/p>\n
The record temperature in New York City for May 19 was set in 1962, when the mercury hit 99 degrees. The record for May 20 was set in 1996, when the temperature hit 96 degrees, added Erickson.<\/p>\n
The late-week cold front will finally deliver relief.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s going to come quickly, too, so the heat will be a shock coming in and going out,\u201d said Erickson.<\/p>\n
Protect yourself from the upcoming heat wave as it can harm your health in many ways REUTERS<\/p>\n
Meteorologists say a sprawling dome of high pressure settling on the eastern half of the country is the main culprit, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n
The dome is like a giant atmospheric lid of hot air near the surface, suppressing clouds and storms, and letting the sun crank temps higher day after day. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s going to be hot and humid for a few days next week so get your fans out. Michael Nagle<\/p>\n
The result is a muggy, sweat-soaked stretch of weather that could send \u201cfeels-like\u201d temperatures soaring into the triple digits in some spots.<\/p>\n
Forecasters say the hottest conditions are expected from the Mid-Atlantic into the Carolinas, where highs throughout the entire area could rocket into the low- to mid-90s \u2014 hot enough to flirt with daily record temperatures before cooler air finally pushes in by Thursday.<\/p>\n
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But the thermometer only tells part of the story.<\/p>\n
Humidity will team up with the heat to make conditions oppressive. <\/p>\n
A woman cools off in a water feature in Domino Park as a heat wave hit the region in Brooklyn in 2022. REUTERS<\/p>\n
North Jersey is staring down some especially intense early-season heat records too. <\/p>\n
Forecast models around Teterboro Airport show temperatures could spike to 93 degrees on Tuesday, May 19, according to NJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe record high for that date in Newark is 98 degrees, also set back in 1962.<\/p>\n
The heat doesn\u2019t stop there. Forecasts for Wednesday still call for temperatures near 90 degrees across North Jersey, though scattered showers and storms may begin creeping into the picture as the cold front \u2014 and relief \u2014 approaches, knocking temperatures back down to finally break the hot and humid grip.<\/p>\n
Until then, all Big Applers and Garden Staters can do is brace for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pack away the sweaters \u2014 a sizzling three-day stretch of of weather is about the roast the Metro…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24789,3930,4588,57,534,1066,9,24,56,63,65,64,22965,58],"class_list":["post-234044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-air-conditioning","tag-cdc","tag-heat-wave","tag-metro","tag-national-weather-service","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-temperature","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234044","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=234044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}