{"id":797099,"date":"2026-05-15T01:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/797099\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T01:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:44:15","slug":"summerlike-temperatures-on-tap-for-weekend-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/797099\/","title":{"rendered":"Summerlike temperatures on tap for weekend and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer is coming<\/a> \u2026 as soon as this weekend, meteorologists say.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s rainfall was set to give way to a sunny, balmy Friday before temperatures climb throughout the weekend, the National Weather Service said. They will reach the 70s and 80s, nudging the 90s by Monday in parts of the tristate area, meteorologists said Thursday. That\u2019s in sharp contrast to the highs in the 50s and 60s that characterized the first half of May. Water temperatures are still in the 50s, the NWS cautioned, even though the air is warm.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are cold water safety concerns this weekend as water temperatures remain in the lower 50s,\u201d the NWS said. \u201cThe cold water temperatures can quickly cause hypothermia and physical incapacitation<\/a> to anyone suddenly immersed in the water. Anyone going out on small boats, canoes, or kayaks should plan accordingly and use extreme caution to avoid this threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Landlubbers will bask in New York City temps that could hit 84\u00b0 on Sunday, 89\u00b0 on Tuesday, and 84\u00b0 again on Wednesday, AccuWeather meteorologists said in an emailed statement. Philadelphia will hit 90\u00b0 as soon as Monday and rise to 93\u00b0 on Tuesday before dropping to a more manageable 88\u00b0 on Wednesday. Washington D.C. is slated to start the week at 95\u00b0, rising to 97\u00b0 before dropping to 88\u00b0 on Wednesday, though humidity will make it feel like 99\u00b0 and 100\u00b0 those days.<\/p>\n

\"NEWPeople enjoy the weather in Prospect Park on April 15, 2026 in the Prospect Park South neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been very little humidity during the few warm spells<\/a> in the Northeast so far this spring,\u201d said AccuWeather Vice President of Forecast Operations Dan DePodwin, adding that it will make the higher humidity \u201cquite noticeable.\u201d<\/p>\n

This could come as something of a shock to people who have been shivering under sweaters and blankets during an unusually chilly spring.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a drier type of hot,\u201d NWS meteorologist Jay Engle told the Daily News in a phone interview. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to be that dog days of summer feel we get in August.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ocean breezes will cool the coastlines, but \u201canywhere removed from the coast,\u201d such as inland suburban areas, will feel the brunt of the heat, AccuWeather senior meteorologist Bob Larson told The News by phone.<\/p>\n

Such temperatures are not record-breaking, given that some of the highest-ever Central Park readings date as far back as 1900<\/a>, according to NWS climate records.<\/p>\n

The higher-than-normal temperatures will not last, Larson noted. They will give way to a more springlike feel at the end of next week.<\/p>\n

Both Larson and Engle underscored the NWS\u2019s water warnings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you take a kayak out or a boat or something and you don\u2019t have special thermal equipment and you fall into the water, you could get hypothermia,\u201d Engle told The News. \u201cIf you go overboard or something, you could go into shock pretty quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

In July and August the water is about 70 degrees because it has been heating up all summer. So it\u2019s easy to get fooled, Larson noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt may feel as if it\u2019s July, but as soon as you encounter that water, your body will tell you otherwise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer is coming \u2026 as soon as this weekend, meteorologists say. Thursday\u2019s rainfall was set to give way…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":797100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,325134,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-797099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-summer-temperatures-weekend","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}