Central Park hits 35 degrees, ending 9-day stretch of subfreezing temperatures
The temperature at Central Park cracked freezing Monday afternoon, hitting 35 degrees, capping our subfreezing streak at nine days, the longest such stretch since 2018 but not the record some thought was in reach.
The push above freezing dashes the possibility of beating the 16-day run of readings at or below 32 degrees that dates to 1961. The 2017-18 streak was 14 days, ending on Jan. 8.
The temperature hit 33 at 1:27 p.m. Monday, and later rose to 35.
With temperatures reaching into the low 30s for the next few days, followed by another polar plunge, and then a possible mid-month warmup, it seems the 16-day record will stand, at least in the immediate future.








