NYC real-feel temps could hit 110 degrees this week: ‘Very steamy kind of sticky air’
Another scorcher is set to grip the metro area over the next few days, with real-feel temperatures potentially hitting 110 degrees, meteorologists said Sunday.
A heat wave is invading up and down the East Coast and will have no mercy on the five boroughs, with the thermometer threatening to reach 99 degrees Tuesday — and match a record set 44 years ago, on July 16, 1980, Fox Weather meteorologist Cody Braud said.
The real-feel temperature that day could also hit 110, Braud said.
“It could be feeling like the low 100s,” he said. “The hot temperatures combined with the high humidity may cause heat illnesses for some of the more easily impacted citizens.
“Regionally speaking, this heat is not just in New York,” Braud added. “It goes all the way up to Boston and as far south as DC. So, it’s all the major I-95 cities getting in on this heat that will hopefully wrap up around Wednesday.”
For the Big Apple, temperatures are expected to reach the mid-90s Monday but will feel like 103 degrees with the heat index.
Tuesday is expected to be the hottest day of the week.
Wednesday will still feel close to 100, but the thermometer is due to drip into the lower 90s.
Braud said the National Weather Service could even call for an extreme weather watch for Tuesday depending on how dangerous the conditions become.
Braud said Thursday could feel like a cold spell by comparison — with the heat subsiding and the temperature expected to dip down into a more merciful mid- to high 80s.
“There are going to be a couple of scattered storms each day,” he said.
It leaves a very steamy kind of sticky air behind,” he said. “If you want the scattered rain for the cool down, that’s fine. But you may be left with the nasty feel afterward.”
The hot temps come as the region has been battered by recent repeated stretches of 90-plus days.
