Metro

Some schools had to close due to extreme heat

New York City is packing heat.

Temps climbed to an unbearable 95 degrees Monday, making it the hottest June 18 since 1929 and the most sweltering day in the city since Aug. 13, 2016, AccuWeather said.

“I feel like I’m melting on the street,” said Ellie Eden, a 22-year-old student from Switzerland who visited the High Line in Chelsea. “Soon I’ll be part of the concrete.”

Dan Woodward, a Seattle psychotherapist in town for a conference, had a blunt diagnosis: “hot as f- -k.”

“I’m sweating through everything I have on,” he said.

The heat had Leesa Squyres, 49, a security guard in Hell’s Kitchen, longing for the comforts of home.

“The only reason I’m out is because I have to go to work,” she said. “Otherwise, I’d be in my room with the AC on drinking Gatorade.”

State officials issued an air-quality advisory for the metro area, warning older people, kids and people with asthma or heart disease against staying outdoors too long.

Some schools in New Jersey and Westchester closed in the early afternoon due to the heat. But New York City kids sweated it out, with some even sitting for Regents exams.

“Today there was no A/C, and they usually have a fan in there, but here was no fan either today,” said José Rojas, a 15-year-old freshman at Manhattan Bridges HS in Hell’s Kitchen who sat for a Spanish exam.

“So it was a little difficult to concentrate — but I pushed through.”

While the exams will continue through the week, the humidity, thankfully, will not, with a thunderstorm bringing relief early Tuesday.

“By the time people wake up, it’ll have started to cool down,” AccuWeather senior meteorologist Paul Walker predicted.