Laura Dulgerian, 38, of Long Beach, crosses Main Street in...

Laura Dulgerian, 38, of Long Beach, crosses Main Street in Huntington on Tuesday.  Credit: Rick Kopstein

Long Islanders should bundle up Wednesday evening as temperatures will once again drop to the mid-teens and even single digits, according to the National Weather Service.

“We’re not really expecting any significant wind tonight, so that means the wind chill really won’ feel much different from the air temperature,” said James Tomasini, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Upton office.

The arctic air mass that lingered for several days will vacate Long Island on Thursday, allowing for “a little bit of a warm-up, if you can call it that,” during which high temperatures will climb up to the low 30s, Tomasini said. He added that high temperatures should remain in the lower 30s for Friday and Saturday.

The frigid lows Long Islanders endured this week are well above the low temperature of 8 degrees below zero recorded at Islip on Jan. 18, 1965, the lowest temperature ever recorded at Islip during the month of January going back to 1963, according to NWS historical data. The lowest temperature recorded on any Jan. 22 at Islip was 7 degrees below zero in 1984.

Normal high temperatures for this time of year should hover around 39 degrees, according to NWS records.

Long Islanders are forecast to feel this sense of normal starting Sunday, Tomasini said. Next week, the meteo

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