Halloween in NYC could see record-high temperatures

Halloween successful New York City could beryllium 1 for the grounds books this year, arsenic temperatures are expected to beryllium mode supra normal, according to early forecasts.

While the unusually precocious October temperatures successful the Big Apple should driblet to much seasonal levels starting aboriginal this week — with highs successful the mid-to-upper 50s owed to a cooler aerial wide moving into the portion — the autumn spell is apt to interruption by the mediate of adjacent week.

According to Weather.com, the high somesthesia connected Oct. 31 this twelvemonth could scope a summer-perfect 80 degrees, with intervals of unreality and sunshine and pleasant winds.

The concern isn’t expected to alteration drastically arsenic the prima sets and the Halloween spirits rise. The lowest somesthesia predicted for Thursday nighttime should beryllium astir 62 degrees — oregon 20 degrees warmer than past year’s festivities.

AccuWeather is besides forecasting a picture-perfect Halloween: “Sunny to partially cloudy and precise warm,” with virtually nary accidental of rain.

Allan Nosoff, a meteorologist with News 12 New York, said Thursday should beryllium the warmest time adjacent week, with temperatures apt to deed the debased 80s. That could easy jeopardize the city’s hottest Halloween connected record, erstwhile thermometers marked 81 degrees backmost successful 1946.

Trick-or-treating time is besides apt to beryllium a scary-dry 1 this year. In fact, with nary measurable rainfall truthful acold this month, the metropolis is adjacent to not lone having it driest October connected grounds but its driest period ever, according to AccuWeather.

Currently, New York City’s driest period was June 1949, with rainfall of conscionable 0.02 of an inch.