{"id":237390,"date":"2026-05-19T23:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237390\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T23:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:03:19","slug":"summer-comes-early-in-nyc-with-blistering-temps-but-memorial-day-weekend-will-be-wet-and-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237390\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer comes early in NYC with blistering temps — but Memorial Day weekend will be wet and cool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer started early this year with a burst<\/a> of scorching temperatures normally seen in August \u2014 but a springtime chill will be back soon, with rain soaking the holiday weekend in New York City.<\/p>\n

Temperatures topped out around 92 degrees Fahrenheit in Central Park Tuesday, with a real-feel hovering somewhere around a sweltering 102 degrees, according to AccuWeather.<\/p>\n

Wednesday is expected to just top those temps with a high of 93 degrees \u2014 prompting the city\u2019s Emergency Management to issue advisories for \u201cextreme heat\u201d through the evening.<\/p>\n

\"FourNew Yorkers frolicking in Central Park as temperatures broke into the 90s on Tuesday afternoon. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

The steamy temps follow a warm weekend, where sunny skies brought highs around 79 degrees on Saturday, 86 degrees on Sunday and 88 degrees on Monday.<\/p>\n

But the weather doesn\u2019t technically constitute a heatwave, according to AccuWeather, which explained three consecutive days at 90 or above were required to qualify. <\/p>\n

And despite New Yorkers\u2019 sticky commutes, the less-than-comfortable weather is not an anomaly in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis kind of heat is not out of the question for this time of the year,\u201d AccuWeather senior meteorologist Matt Benz told The Post. \u201cThe all-time May record high temperature was recorded on this date in 1962 when the temperature reached 99 degrees.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSince this won\u2019t go down as a heat wave for NYC, I would say it is not out of the ordinary, especially since we have not broken any records,\u201d he added. \u201cThe earliest heat wave on record for NYC occurred from April 16th-18th of 2002.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SevenNew York felt like the depths of summer this week, bringing people out to the parks in their swimsuits. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

The sunshine isn\u2019t expected to last. Memorial Day weekend is predicted to be<\/a> more like early April than the unofficial start of summer.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s sunshine will give way to thunderstorms. Thursday and Friday are forecast to be partly cloudy, with temperatures topping out around 65 degrees, while lows will be as cool as 51.<\/p>\n

Occasional showers on Friday will give way to steady periods of rain and a high of 58 degrees on Saturday, with similar rainfall continuing through Sunday, while temps will reach about 66 degrees.<\/p>\n

The rain is expected to move out by Monday and be replaced by overcast skies and temps around 70 \u2014 with the warmth and sunshine rolling back in time for the work week, which will be in the mid-70s with partly cloudy skies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer started early this year with a burst of scorching temperatures normally seen in August \u2014 but a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4588,57,9,56,63,65,64,603,11304,15071,58,133],"class_list":["post-237390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-heat-wave","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-rain","tag-summer","tag-sun","tag-us-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237390","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=237390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}