Potential for heat wave as temps soar
Photo credit: Danielle Finkelstein | Tristyn Forde, 12, of Springfield Gardens, celebrates summer vacation and his last day of the sixth grade with classmates at Jones Beach. (June 19, 2012)
It was a first-day-of-summer scorcher.
The thermometer hit 91 degrees at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma early Wednesday afternoon -- and it felt like 101 degrees at one point, the National Weather Service said.
In Upton, at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the record of 93 degrees was tied.
Potentially record-breaking temperatures in the 90s are in the forecast for...
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