New Jersey Wakes Up on Standard Time: Frost at Dawn, Sunshine and 61 Today, 68 and Dry for Election Day
The clocks went back at 2 a.m. and New Jersey's first standard-time morning is the coldest of the stretch - near 38 at dawn, feeling colder - before a sunny Sunday and a dry, mild Election Day.
New Jersey is on standard time again. Clocks turned back at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 1, returning the state to Eastern Standard Time, and the first morning on the new clock is a cold one: the station's live feed read 41.6 degrees and clear in the small hours, feeling like 35.6, on the way down to a low near 38 - frost territory for lawns, gardens and windshields away from the immediate coast.
Sunday repays the early risers. The feed calls for sunshine and a high of 61.7 degrees with only a 1 percent precipitation chance - the same dry, mild afternoon promised to the marathon field, the final-day early voters (sites open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and the Jets crowd in East Rutherford. Monday continues the warm-up: a high of 65.5, a low near 41 and a 2 percent precipitation chance.
Election Day is the week's best day on the fresh feed. Tuesday is dry with a high of 68, a low in the low 50s and no precipitation expected, and Wednesday reaches 69.4. The change arrives late in the week: Thursday's precipitation chance rises to 36 percent and Friday's to 52 percent, with highs still in the mid-to-upper 60s - voters get the dry days, and the rain waits until the ballots are cast.
