{"id":284756,"date":"2026-07-02T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/284756\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:54:16","slug":"new-york-heat-wave-hits-90-degrees-in-major-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/284756\/","title":{"rendered":"New York heat wave hits 90 degrees in major cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two New York cities set daily record high temperatures Wednesday as the state&#8217;s first major heat wave of the summer intensified. Several days of dangerous heat are expected through Friday, with heat index values forecast to exceed 100 degrees across much of the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some parts of New York could continue to experience dangerous heat into Saturday, the Independence Day holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here&#8217;s a look at just how hot it got across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Syracuse, Binghamton set record highs<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the National Weather Service, Syracuse reached 96 degrees at 4:16 p.m. Wednesday, breaking the previous daily record of 95 degrees, which was set in 1931.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Binghamton also set a new daily record, reaching 91 degrees at 4:29 p.m. That broke the previous July 1 record of 90 degrees, set in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Poughkeepsie was New York&#8217;s hottest city<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Seven New York cities reached or exceeded 90 degrees Wednesday, July 1, according to National Weather Service observations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Poughkeepsie was the hottest, climbing to 98 degrees at 4:18 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>How hot did it get across New York?Wednesday, July 1 highs<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rochester and Albany: 94 degrees<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Binghamton and New York City&#8217;s Central Park: 93 degrees<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Islip (Long Island): 84 degrees<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, June 30 highs<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Buffalo and Poughkeepsie: 90 degrees<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York City&#8217;s Central Park: 87 degrees<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Albany and Binghamton: 86 degrees<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Islip (Long Island): 85 degrees<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Rockland\/Westchester Journal News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/weather\/2026\/07\/02\/new-york-heat-wave-hits-90-degrees-in-major-cities\/90779480007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:New York heat wave hits 90 degrees in major cities;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York heat wave hits 90 degrees in major cities&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York heat wave hits 90 degrees in major cities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two New York cities set daily record high temperatures Wednesday as the state&#8217;s first major heat wave of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109183,109184,109185,93491,534,9,24,55,54,56,11277,5384],"class_list":["post-284756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-90-degrees","tag-98-degrees","tag-daily-record","tag-dangerous-heat","tag-national-weather-service","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-poughkeepsie","tag-syracuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284756","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=284756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}