{"id":286217,"date":"2026-07-03T21:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/286217\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T21:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:08:24","slug":"midnight-milestone-new-york-city-sets-hottest-nighttime-temperature-as-heat-dome-continues-to-boil-east-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/286217\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Milestone: New York City sets hottest nighttime temperature as heat dome continues to boil East Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 New York City<\/a> recorded its warmest midnight temperature on record early Friday, as a historic July 4 holiday<\/a> heat wave<\/a> broils the Northeast<\/a> and Mid-Atlantic<\/a> with life-threatening conditions.<\/p>\n

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LaGuardia Airport<\/a> was 94 degrees at midnight, breaking the previous record of 93 degrees set on July 18, 2013. The record-setting heat lingered into the night after the airport reached 102 degrees Thursday, breaking a daily high-temperature record that had stood since 1966.<\/p>\n

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New York City recorded its warmest midnight temperature on record early Friday, as a historic July 4 holiday heat wave broils the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic with life-threatening conditions.<\/p>\n

Other records fell across the Northeast Thursday. Philadelphia<\/a> reached 103 degrees, tying a daily high-temperature record that had stood since 1901 and marking the city’s fourth-warmest day on record.<\/p>\n

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If both cities reach 100 degrees Friday, it would be the first back-to-back days of triple digit temperatures since 2011.<\/p>\n

Wilmington<\/a>, Delaware and Atlantic City<\/a>, New Jersey, also set records on Thursday, with both cities climbing to 100 degrees.<\/p>\n

Poughkeepsie<\/a>, New York, Manchester<\/a>, New Hampshire and Springfield<\/a>, Massachusetts all set daily records in the mid-and upper 90s.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C.<\/a> reached 102 degrees, surpassing the previous mark set in 1989.<\/p>\n

According to the FOX Forecast Center, DC could see four consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures by the end of this heat wave, which has only happened three other times since the city’s record-keeping began in 1872.<\/p>\n

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