The Big Apple is slated to finally start thawing out — but only ever so slightly.
The thermometer will start ticking up on Tuesday, after New Yorkers are forced to endure one more night of unbearably bone-chilling temperatures, forecasters said.
And for the first time in weeks, New York City was expected to have experience highs in the 40s on Wednesday.
“The next 24 hours is trending to warm temperatures,” Chad Merrill, a meteorologist at AccuWeather, told The Post.
“The coldest weather of the season is departing as we speak.”
Wednesday was set to be the warmest day of the week with the high reaching 41 degrees before dipping down slightly to 34 and 35 degrees on Thursday and Friday, respectively.
For most of the following week, the highs will rebound into the 40s, according to forecasters.
It is a start contrast to the crippling conditions experienced this past weekend when the low dropped to 3 degrees and bitter wind chills dragged the real feel temperatures to 14 degrees below zero.
The outdoor death toll during the historic freeze rose to 18 after a person was found dead on the street on Saturday morning in the Bronx, City Hall officials said Monday.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Brooklyn residents were forced to go without power through early Monday morning following a devastating outage right in the middle the record-shattering cold snap.
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