{"id":282270,"date":"2026-06-30T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/282270\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:25:09","slug":"heat-wave-extreme-heat-warning-issued-for-nyc-as-heat-index-set-to-surpass-100-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/282270\/","title":{"rendered":"HEAT WAVE: Extreme Heat Warning issued for NYC as heat index set to surpass 100\u00b0 this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2013 Highs will approach 100 degrees on multiple days this week\u2014and the heat index will surge towards 110\u2014as the first heat wave of the season grips New York City through the July 4 holiday.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service issued an Extreme Heat Warning<\/a> from Wednesday afternoon to Wednesday night, as well as an Extreme Heat Watch<\/a> from Wednesday until Saturday night. An Air Quality Alert<\/a> is also in effect Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Highs will steadily climb this week. Tuesday\u2019s high will be 89; Wednesday\u2019s will be 95; Thursday\u2019s will approach 100; and Friday\u2019s will also near 100.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/ AccuWeather<\/p>\n

It will feel much hotter with the humidity, according to AccuWeather. The RealFeel temps will be over 100\u2014and even approach 105\u2013110\u2014on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with the heat index peaking Friday.<\/p>\n

Records of 100 and 103 degrees, both set in 1966, could fall on Thursday and Friday, respectively, AccuWeather says.<\/p>\n

The heat wave will continue for the July 4 holiday on Saturday. Highs are expected to be in the mid-90s. <\/p>\n

\"\"\/ AccuWeather<\/p>\n

The dangerously hot weather comes as a so-called \u201cheat dome,\u201d or large area of high pressure, traps heat in place over the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are extremely conditions,\u201d Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a video message<\/a> Tuesday. \u201cIf the forecast holds, Thursday would be the first 100-degree day recorded in Central Park since July 18, 2012.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mamdani said he\u2019s activated a heat emergency plan to open hundreds of cooling centers citywide. As they come online, they will be added here: nyc.gov\/beattheheat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2013 Highs will approach 100 degrees on multiple days this week\u2014and the heat index…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[40096,4588,9,56,63,65,64,133],"class_list":["post-282270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-accuweather","tag-heat-wave","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282270","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=282270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}