Fire & Ice

65° today. Snow tomorrow.

The Big Apple is taking a ride on a two-day weather roller coaster.

Temperatures are forecast to hit a record-breaking 65 degrees early Wednesday — and then plummet to freezing by the end of the day as a major storm system brings four to eight inches of snow.

The thermometer on Wednesday is expected to eclipse the record of 61 degrees for the date, set back in 1965.

“That record will, at the very least, be challenged,” AccuWeather meteorologist Tom Kines said.

But soon after the 52-year mark is smashed, temperatures are expected to plummet some 30 degrees as darkness comes Wednesday night.

By then, it will be cold enough for a heavy blanket of wet snow.

The storm will eventually transition to fluffier flakes by Thursday, with snow forecast through the afternoon and frigid temperatures falling into the teens overnight Thursday into Friday before moving up to a high of 28.

Kines estimated that the best bet for the city right now is six inches of snow on Thursday.

“It will cause major issues in the morning, but it wouldn’t even shock me if the sun came out by the end of the day,” after the brief storm, he said.

New Yorkers said they are feeling weather whiplash.

“I find it disconcerting,” said Alexandra Alberstadt, 50, of the Upper East Side.

“I don’t know if it’s global warm- ing, but this is not normal.”

Joanna Purpich, 25, from Ridgewood, Queens, added, “This is the new normal, but I do feel this is less extreme than last winter.”

Last month, 6.3 inches blanketed the Big Apple during a two-day snowstorm Jan. 6 and 7. It made up the majority of the 7.9 inches of snow that fell in January.

February has so far been snowless.