TOUGH ‘TEMP’ JOB

Wild hot-cold swing has NYers under the weather

The Big Apple is on a weather roller coaster — and New Yorkers don’t know how to dress anymore.

Temperatures rose from the low 40s on Sunday to the mid-50s on Monday and Tuesday, before surging to a balmy 70 degrees on Wednesday.

The city was then hammered with heavy winds topping 50 mph on Thursday — with freezing temperatures and a coating of snow on tap for Friday.

“Last week, I was wearing shorts and flips one day, and a parka the next day,” said William Kim, 24.

“It’s kind of annoying. Now I’m waking up and having to be like, ‘Is this a sweatshirt kind of day or a T-shirt kind of day?’ ”

The heavy gusts caused a tree to collapse onto a Q train at the Cortelyou Road station in Brooklyn during the morning rush Thursday, leading to major backups on the line, officials said. There were no injuries.

“NYC wind is so disrespectful, turn a corner and it smacks the s--t outta you,” Starla Green, of The Bronx, tweeted.

Snow is in the forecast for Friday afternoon and evening, but it’s expected to only be a coating.

Saturday night will see the mercury dip into the teens.

“In three words, welcome to March,” said Dave Dombek, senior meteorologist for AccuWeather.

“This is typically the roller coaster time of year [with] wild swings in temperature from one extreme to the next.”

The unpredictable temperatures are making it hard for Astoria resident Nicole Kontos to manage her wardrobe in her small apartment.

“I typically pack away my off-season clothes because there’s not a lot of room,” Kontos said. “Well, you can probably guess what my apartment looks like now.”

Other parts of the country have also faced wild weather this week.

Typically balmy Hawaii got about eight inches of snow on its Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea peaks Tuesday and Wednesday.

And Chicago, infamous for brutal winters, didn’t record any snow for the months of January and February — the first time in 146 years.