{"id":802286,"date":"2026-05-17T06:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/802286\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:28:15","slug":"hot-town-summer-in-the-city-next-weeks-temps-in-nyc-region-soar-into-a-triple-digit-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/802286\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot town, summer in the city! Next week&#8217;s temps in NYC, region soar into a triple digit burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pack away the sweaters \u2014 a sizzling three-day stretch of of weather is about the roast NYC along with much of the eastern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The region will trade cool spring breezes for a full-blown early summer scorcher, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/discussions\/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdepd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the National Weather Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeat will be making headlines for much of the Eastern US for the first half of the week,\u201d said the NWS.<\/p>\n<p>Sunbathers enjoying a day in Hoboken, N.J. last summer. Leonardo Munoz<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be shock because it will happen so suddenly. The temperatures have been cool lately and it\u2019s usually in the low \u201970s in mid-May,\u201d Carl Erickson, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather, told the Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hottest days will be on May 19 and 20. The temperature on Tuesday is predicted to be 95 degrees, and 92 degrees on Wednesday, then by Thursday temperatures will begin dropping,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The record temperature in New York City for May 19 was set in 1962, when the mercury hit 99 degrees. The record for May 20 was set in 1996, when the temperature hit 96 degrees, added Erickson.<\/p>\n<p>Humidity will team up with the heat to make conditions oppressive in spots.<\/p>\n<p>A sprawling dome of high pressure settling on the eastern half of the country is the main culprit, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>The dome is like a giant atmospheric lid of hot air near the surface, suppressing clouds and storms, and letting the sun crank temps higher.<\/p>\n<p>Protect yourself from the upcoming heat wave as it can harm your health in  many ways REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>The result is a muggy, sweat-soaked stretch of weather that could send \u201cfeels-like\u201d temperatures soaring into the triple digits in some spots.<\/p>\n<p>North Jersey is staring down some especially intense early-season heat records too. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be hot and humid for a few days next week so get your fans out. Michael Nagle<\/p>\n<p>Forecast models around Teterboro Airport show temperatures could spike to 93 degrees on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/weather\/2026\/05\/nj-weather-big-warmup-potential-heat-wave-on-the-way.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to NJ.com<\/a>. The record high for that date in Newark is 98 degrees, also set back in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A woman cools off in a water feature in Domino Park as a heat wave hit the region in Brooklyn in 2022. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Forecasts for Wednesday still call for temperatures near 90 degrees across North Jersey, though scattered showers and storms may begin creeping into the picture as the cold front \u2014 and relief \u2014 approaches, knocking temperatures back down to finally break the hot and humid grip.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters say the hottest conditions are expected from the Mid-Atlantic into the Carolinas, where highs throughout the entire area could rocket into the low- to mid-90s \u2014 enough to flirt with daily record temperatures before cooler air finally pushes in by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A late-week cold front will finally deliver relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s going to come quickly, too, so the heat will be a shock coming in and going out,\u201d said Erickson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pack away the sweaters \u2014 a sizzling three-day stretch of of weather is about the roast NYC along&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":802287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[9898,5229,16460,5370,5248,6231,401,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,15475,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-802286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-air-conditioning","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cdc","11":"tag-heat-wave","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-national-weather-service","14":"tag-new-jersey","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-temperature","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116588504853488862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802286","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=802286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}