The Big Apple is heating back up, with temperatures expected toꩲ top 70 degrees on Christmas Eve.
After a cold weekend, temps will begin a clim💧b💧 on Monday to 56 degrees.
Rain is expected Tuesday, the first day of winter, with a high of 63 🌃degrees♈.
Wednesday will also be wet with a half-inch of rainfall. But it won’t cool things down, as temperatures will climb on Christmas Eve, when the 1996 record of 63 is expected to be smashed by midn🅷ight.
“Our coolest temperature for the day could be at or above the record high,” said AccuWeather meteorologist Dave Samuhel. “It’s u🐈nusual.”
By the afternoon, it wilꦰl get up to 71 degrees, with ample clouds and abundant humidity, he said.
Eꦛarly risers eager to open their presents on Christmas Day might also get the gift of record-breaking warmth, with early-morning temperatures set to top the date’s all-time high of 64 degrees, set ꦍin 1982.
T🌃he weather will cool during the day to 60 degrees before dropping into the 50s on the weekend.
The National Weather Sꦕervice noted that Central Park has not yet seen a single day with below-freezing temperatures this year.
The record for the fewest subfreezing days in a year was set in 1923, whe♏n Central Park registered only four days below 32 degrees.
The forecast was bringing no joy to those drea🦄ming of a white Christmas.
“It’s my favorite part of New York in the wintertime — Manhattan in the snow,” said Colin Feeney, 28, of Rockaway B🔜each.
“I miss seeing the snow covering the Christmas lights,” he said. “It feels like spring, not like Christmastime.🍎”