New Yorkers were feeling the heat Monday as the temperature soared — prompting this office worker to try to cool down by stripping off his shoes and socks in a Midtown Manhattan plaza.
The mercury hit a high of 91 degrees, marking a second day of scorching weather to help usher out the last week of August.
The city’s second extended hot spell of the season was expected to continue through Thursday.
“It may end up being our longest stretch of 90-degree weather this summer,” said Tom Kines, a senior meteorologist with AccuWeather.
The anticipated heat wave — defined in the Northeast as at least three consecutive days of 90 degrees or higher — started Sunday, when temperatures reached 90 degrees.
And the weather’s expected to get worse before it gets better.
The forecast calls for the Big Apple to continue baking at even higher temperatures, with Tuesday and Wednesday bringing expected highs of 94 before a peak temperature of 97 degrees on Thursday.
The city endured a four-day hot pocket from Aug. 15 to Aug. 18, with Aug. 17 tying a record high of 95 degrees day set back in 1944.
At least this is likely the final round of 90-plus-degree days.
“I don’t want to say never,” Kines said. “I do think it’s going to warm back up again next week. Whether or not we hit 90, it’s tough to say.”
After Thursday, the mercury will drop into the mid-80s, followed by a cool-air system that will knock off a few more degrees next week.
AccuWeather’s monthlong September forecast is slated to average around 75 degrees during the day and then cool off to the mid-60s in the evening, which Kines said is typical for New York.
Meanwhile, parts of South Carolina were flooded Monday by the remnants of Tropical Storm Erika, with TV stations showing cars submerged above their windows and over their hoods in the suburbs of Charleston.
Cops closed streets on the city’s peninsula, which sits at or just above sea level.
Erika killed at least 20 people on the small eastern Caribbean island of Dominica and one person in Haiti before weakening over Cuba on Saturday.