By Mariel S. Clark and Della Hasselle
DNAinfo News Reporters
MANHATTAN —The stifling spring season is expected to continue at least through the weekend.
It's not even summer yet and already Manhattan temperatures will rise to 92 degrees Saturday.
So far this spring has been the warmest on record in Central Park, the National Weather Service reported, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The months of March, April and May had an average temperature of slightly more than 57 degrees, not hot by any account, but still nearly five degrees above normal, the paper reported.
Following a trend of record-setting months — snowiest month on record in February, the rainiest March — Central Park had its warmest April, breaking the old record set back in 1941, according to the NWS.
And the extra-warm weather may continue right through the summer months of July, August and September.
Manhattan has a 34 percent chance that the thermometer will stay above average this summer, and could possibly beat the old record of 77.3 degrees for the season set in 1966, the Journal reported.
With temperatures expected to climb this weekend, averaging in the high 80s, Manhattanites could continue to don the hot weather staples of shades, shorts and tanks right up until the official start of summer on June 21.
