New York Breaks Record High Temperature Thursday Afternoon
- Central Park breaks 2001 record as 90-degree days bake city
- Late start for leafy trees may have boosted heat’s effects
A man enjoys a warm spring day at Bryant Park in Manhattan on May 2, 2018.
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New York’s Central Park tied a heat record Wednesday and broke one Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.
The temperature in the Manhattan park reached 92 degrees Fahrenheit (33.3 Celsius) just before 3 p.m. breaking an old mark set in 2001. Wednesday the readings reached 90, tying a record from the same year. The string of records will probably end Friday, as highs are only supposed to reach 88, not quite the 92 also recorded in 2001.