{"id":238014,"date":"2026-05-20T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238014\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:25:09","slug":"scorched-nyc-faces-severe-weather-threat-before-30-degree-temperature-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238014\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorched NYC faces severe weather threat before 30-degree temperature drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; Scorching heat continued to grip New York City on Wednesday, but a cold front could bring severe weather before sending temperatures tumbling by about 30 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s high in Midtown is set to reach 93 degrees. That\u2019s the same high as Tuesday and a few degrees short of the record of 96, set on May 20, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>While highs have been in the upper 80s and 90s all week, the heat streak will come to an end late Wednesday, according to AccuWeather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"f43de\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"6466b188a35b8acbca029b5b5b544383\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201920%201080'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779287109_484_image.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"\"\/> AccuWeather<\/p>\n<p>Thunderstorms Wednesday evening could bring heavy rain, damaging wind gusts and even hail. Showers may linger overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The city will wake up to much cooler temps on Thursday, with a high of just 64.<\/p>\n<p>Cooler temps and periods of rain will last through the holiday weekend, with highs mostly sticking to the 60s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"eca24\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"a5d6b61da56a2e1333328c899365cd92\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201920%201080'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779287109_93_image.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"\"\/> AccuWeather<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"618d6\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"a27e9151568b6ac763222c3817199580\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201920%201080'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779287109_942_image.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"\"\/> AccuWeather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; Scorching heat continued to grip New York City on Wednesday, but a cold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[40096,92768,9,24,63,134,136,135,133],"class_list":["post-238014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-accuweather","tag-hot-weather","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238014","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=238014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}