Here is the news from today's NYT: The temperature climbed to 104 in New York City — 2 degrees shy of the city’s record — and 108 in Newark, the highest temperature ever recorded there, as a heat wave around the region intensified on Friday afternoon.
It continues saying that... It was 2:10 p.m. when the temperature in Central Park reached 104 degrees, soaring past the record for July 22 in New York, set at 101 degrees in 1957, and getting close to 106, the city record, which was last reached in 1936. (The last time it was 104 was in July 1977.) The record temperature in Newark had been 105 degrees, set in 1901.
On Friday, according to the National Weather Service, it felt like 112 degrees in New York City. To those out in the streets, it felt more like being licked by a big, swampy monster.
OK, I confess I was upset when I called you a couple of times and you didn't either pick up the phone or call me back. I wasn't happy until you called me in the morning.