New York Post

NYC’S A HOT MESS!

Heat’ll last all week

- By KHRISTINA NARIZHNAYA and LINDA MASSARELLA lmassarell­a@nypost.com

Temperatur­es hovered around a blistering 100 degrees on Sunday — and New Yorkers are facing even more stickiness, with the first heat wave of the summer expected to sizzle two days past the July 4th holiday.

Liana Miller, 25, of Harlem, had set out to enjoy Coney Island with her boyfriend, jbut ended up desperatel­y looking for shade on the boardwalk.

“It’s so hot. It feels like I’m a sizzling piece of bacon,” she said. “It was an hourlong Uber ride. And now I’m here, just like a gajillion other people.”

AccuWeathe­r meteorolog­ist John Feerick said the heat hit 100 degrees in areas Sunday, including at La Guardia and Newark airports.

In Central Park, the mercury rose to 97 degrees, 4 degrees short of the record of 101 degrees set in 1901.

But Sunday’s “real feel” was a boggling 106 degrees due to high humidity and air pollution, Feerick said.

Temps in the city were expected to reach a high of 98 Monday and a high of 92 Tuesday. And for July 4, it’ll be a muggy 90 degrees with scattered showers.

“This heat wave will last longer than usual,” Feerick said. “There was a sevenday heat wave in 2013, and we might be matching that.”

Meteorolog­ists said the hot air rode in Saturday on a strong ridge of high pressure from the east.

Katya Leibholz, 25, of Manhattan, was among those baking at the Coney Island beach.

“I hope it doesn’t get any hotter,” she said. “As a Russian person, this is the most I can handle.”

But the heat was just right for Lina Dolmatova, 26, a translator from Mexico who was at Brighton Beach with her son, Alexander.

“We feel great,” she said. “Any place that has an ocean is great. It’s the summer, so I’m always in the mood for the ocean, the sun, tequila and a party.”

The city issued a heat advisory urging people suffering to go to a cooling center.

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