New Jersey Weather: A Frosty Start, a Dry 61-Degree Sunday, and Nothing but Sunshine Standing Between Voters and Tuesday
The station's live feed puts Sunday at 60.9 degrees and dry for the marathon and the last day of early voting, Election Day at 68.3 and dry - and holds the week's rain until Thursday and Friday, after the votes are cast.
New Jersey woke up cold and votes warm. The station's live weather feed, read by this desk on Sunday morning, shows 51.2 degrees and clear skies climbing from an overnight low of 39.4, on the way to a dry Sunday high of 60.9 degrees with zero precipitation - a fair, cool day for the marathon across the river, for the Jets crowd at MetLife, and for the voters using the final day of early voting, which runs until 6 p.m. under clear skies.
The week cooperates through the only day that is not negotiable. Monday reaches 64.2 degrees with a 3 percent chance of precipitation - dry for the first Portal-cutover commute - and Election Day, Tuesday, is the week's best voting weather: 68.3 degrees, dry, with lows of 43.9 that make the 6 a.m. poll opening brisk rather than bitter. Wednesday warms further to 70.7, still dry, as the count and the arguments proceed under sun.
The rain is scheduled, politely, for after. The feed brings drizzle chances of 49 percent on Thursday and rain at 55 percent on Friday, with highs holding in the upper 60s - a mild, unsettled end to the week that arrives only once the ballots are in. The pattern in one line: frost at dawn today, short sleeves by Tuesday afternoon, and umbrellas that can wait until Thursday.
