`` When it gets to be in the high 90s , especially over 100 degrees , people just go indoors and look for air conditioning , '' Fox said . Source : ` ` When we have hot weather ... the unemployment rate seems to go up '' But year - to - date , numbers are down in New York City . A professor says : ` ` Lifestyle differences vary between cold ... and warm weather '' Another professor says there 's not enough evidence to blame weekend numbers on heat .
Source : ` ` When we have hot weather ... the unemployment rate seems to go up '' But year - to - date , numbers are down in New York City . A professor says : ` ` Lifestyle differences vary between cold ... and warm weather '' Another professor says there 's not enough evidence to blame weekend numbers on heat .