New Jersey Turns the Clocks Back: A Frosty Dawn, Then Sunshine and 61 for Marathon Sunday
Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday in New Jersey. The repeated hour comes with the coldest dawn of the stretch - lows near 38 - before sunshine takes Sunday to 61 for the marathon and the final day of early voting.
New Jersey gets its extra hour back overnight. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 1, when clocks turn back to 1 a.m. and the state returns to Eastern Standard Time - the change every race-morning and early-voting plan today is built on. The station's live feed in the small hours read 43.6 degrees and clear, feeling like 37.8, on the way to a Sunday low near 38 - a frosty start for anyone heading out before sunrise.
The day improves quickly. Sunday turns sunny with a high of 61.4 degrees on the station feed and only a 1 percent precipitation chance - the same mild, dry afternoon the marathon field and the final-day early voters were promised. Gardeners should still expect frost on lawns and windshields at dawn outside the immediate coast, the tail of the cold night that put a Frost Advisory over South Jersey.
The warming trend continues into the vote. Monday reaches the mid-60s with a low near 41, and Election Day on Tuesday is dry and milder still on the fresh feed: a high near 68, a low in the low 50s and no precipitation expected - several degrees warmer than the outlook published Saturday night.
