The dangerous heat is intensifying Friday as millions are expected to attend outdoor events marking America’s 250th birthday, with feels-like temperatures forecast to reach between 100 and 115 degrees along the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic coasts.
NEW YORK — New York City recorded its warmest midnight temperature on record early Friday, as a historic July 4 holiday heat wave broils the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic with life-threatening conditions.
LaGuardia Airport was 94 degrees at midnight, breaking the previous record of 93 degrees set on July 18, 2013. The record-setting heat lingered into the night after the airport reached 102 degrees Thursday, breaking a daily high-temperature record that had stood since 1966.
New York City recorded its warmest midnight temperature on record early Friday, as a historic July 4 holiday heat wave broils the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic with life-threatening conditions.
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Other records fell across the Northeast Thursday. Philadelphia reached 103 degrees, tying a daily high-temperature record that had stood since 1901 and marking the city’s fourth-warmest day on record.
JULY 4 FESTIVITIES THREATENED AS SEVERE STORMS TAKE AIM AT NORTHEAST, MID-ATLANTIC
If both cities reach 100 degrees Friday, it would be the first back-to-back days of triple digit temperatures since 2011.
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Wilmington, Delaware and Atlantic City, New Jersey, also set records on Thursday, with both cities climbing to 100 degrees.
Poughkeepsie, New York, Manchester, New Hampshire and Springfield, Massachusetts all set daily records in the mid-and upper 90s.
Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. reached 102 degrees, surpassing the previous mark set in 1989.
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According to the FOX Forecast Center, DC could see four consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures by the end of this heat wave, which has only happened three other times since the city’s record-keeping began in 1872.
