New Jersey Weather Sunday Evening: Clear and 61 at Dusk, a Frost Advisory Overnight, and 39 Degrees by Morning
The first evening of standard time brings the year's earliest-feeling sunset — 4:56 p.m. in Trenton — and then a genuinely cold night: the National Weather Service has a Frost Advisory up until 8 a.m. Monday, with lows near 39.
Sunday is ending the way it spent most of its afternoon: clear. The station's live feed put New Jersey at 61.3 degrees and clear late in the afternoon, a step above the day's official high of 61.9 — but the evening is the story now. Sunset in Trenton came at 4:56 p.m. EST, the first sub-5 p.m. sunset of the season on the new standard-time clock, and temperatures fall steadily from here: through the 50s this evening and into the low 40s and upper 30s overnight.
The National Weather Service in Mount Holly has a Frost Advisory in effect for tonight, issued at 12:40 p.m. EST and running until 8 a.m. Monday, per the alert listings read by this desk. The station feed bottoms the night out at 39.4 degrees with no precipitation. Gardeners with anything tender still outside, and anyone who moved plants in for Halloween night and moved them back out into Sunday's sunshine, should treat tonight as a covering night, not a hopeful one — clear skies and light wind are exactly the recipe frost likes.
Monday then resets the week on a mild note: the feed calls for a high of 65.9 degrees under increasing cloud, a low of 40.5, and only a 3 percent chance of rain — a comfortable runway into an Election Day that still reads dry and 67.7 degrees. Tonight is the cold snap; the week itself is not.
