No, your blood pressure hasn't gotten a hold over you yet: we're in the middle of a brow-furrowing heatwave, which is reddening our cheeks and drenching our clothes in salty sweat. With record-breaking temperatures making the city feel like a giant stir fry, people are undergoing almost supernatural sensations: "I had to run for the bus. By the time I finished, I looked like Patrick Ewing in the fourth quarter," Robinson Hernandez told the Post.
UWS preschool teacher Jessa Gold described it in more surreal terms: "I feel like I'm swimming in hot pea soup. I'm spending a lot of money on cabs because they're air-conditioned. I'm literally sweating off my makeup." Cab driver Noah Goldstein told the Times it has been an exceptional heatwave: “It’s a steam bath. In all my years in New York, I’ve never seen it get this hot this early.” And one resident told CBS that there are worse things: “I’m just fanning myself into a comfortable state. It’s better than sloshing around in the snow.”
We can all be grateful about one thing: at least we're not in Newark.
