Mother Nature is taking quite a shine to the Big Apple this weekend.
“There’s nothing on the horizon but sun and warm weather,” said George Klein of the National Weather Service.
“There’s [a storm] in the Midwest, but it’s going to take days to get here.”
City temps today could hit the low 90s, eclipsing yesterday’s high of 86. It’ll be cooler at the shore – around the upper 70s and low 80s.
As the summer season unofficially got underway, city parks and beaches sprung to life.
Sharae Jackson gathered together with friends around picnic tables in Crotona Park in The Bronx yesterday to celebrate daughter Jalani’s first birthday.
“It’s a great way to stay cool,” beamed Jackson, as she turned chicken on a barbecue.
Out at Beach 85th Street on Rockaway Beach, Barbara Ott, 13, joined her pals bagging crabs.
“We catch them and put them back at the end of the day,” said Ott, who displayed a squirming specimen. “That’s what we do everyday when the sun’s out.”
The Beach 85th St. gang was lucky – the surf was closed from Beach 61st Street to 75th Street for several years because of the lifeguard shortage.
Assistant Parks Commissioner Jack Linn said the city has 400 lifeguards signed up this year – 125 more than this time last year – and he’s promising 850 by midsummer.
And out East in the Hamptons, New Yorkers who fought the traffic to reach the beach couldn’t have been more pleased.
“This weather is unbelievable,” cheered reveler John Hanney yesterday. “I’m already burnt!”