A woman relaxes in the sun in Central Park. New Yorkers have been sizzling in the sun in an unusual heat wave at the end of winter. Temperatures soared to 24 degrees Celsius (76 Fahrenheit) - in region’s warmest stretch in 40 years. The warm March weather follows the warmest ever February recorded in a Central Park weather station.Picture: Laurentiu Garofeanu / Barcroft USA (via Pictures of the day: 20 March 2012 - Telegraph)