The good news: It’s no longer unseasonably chilly, gray and overcast.
The bad news: New York is blasting into a heat-wave of 94-degree highs that won’t let up until Wednesday.
Waking up to the sun’s rays Sunday, New Yorkers made a mad dash to area beaches and parks.
But by the time the temperature hit 91 at 3 p.m., the grumbling set in.
“We pulled out the booty shorts and crop tops today,” Kim Martino, 20, said as she walked along the Puerto Rican Day parade on Fifth Avenue.
“I’m sweating my Boriqua booty right off!”
Accuweather meteorologist Bob Larsen said three days of high temperatures at this time of year aren’t unusual, but it feels more steamy because last Tuesday, New York City hit a record-breaking low of 60 degrees.
“It’s a psychological factor. Coming off the two weeks of cool weather, when it suddenly gets warm, it can come as a shock to the system,” said Larsen.
In Central Park, people were in a yin-yang mood a week before summer became official.
Cole Francum, 22, was catching some rays and “enjoying the sun” as he sprawled on the grass at Sheep Meadow but was mulling about what lay await when he got back to his Hell’s Kitchen apartment.
“I desperately need an AC,” he said.