New Jersey Weather at Midday: 56.9 Degrees and Partly Cloudy, on the Way to 61 - and Election Day Still Dry at 68
The station's live feed at midday puts New Jersey at 56.9 degrees under partly cloudy skies, climbing to a dry 61.2 for the marathon's last finishers and the final early-voting afternoon, with Monday at 64.2 and a dry Election Day at 68.3 still ahead.
The cold start is done earning its headline. The station's live weather feed, read by this desk at midday on Sunday, shows 56.9 degrees and partly cloudy skies, feeling like 53, climbing from the overnight low of 39.4 toward a Sunday high of 61.2 with zero precipitation - a fair, cool afternoon for the amateur waves still finishing the marathon in Central Park, for the Jets crowd filing into MetLife, and for voters using the last hours of early voting, which ends at 6 p.m. under dry skies.
The near term stays cooperative. Monday reaches 64.2 degrees with a 3 percent chance of precipitation for the first Portal-cutover weekday commute, and Election Day, Tuesday, remains the week's best voting weather: 68.3 degrees, dry, after a brisk 43.9-degree start at the 6 a.m. poll opening. Wednesday warms to 70.7, still essentially dry, as the counting and the arguing proceed.
The unsettled end of the week is unchanged in shape and slightly softer in the numbers: drizzle chances of 45 percent on Thursday and rain at 54 percent on Friday, with highs holding in the upper 60s, and Saturday at 67.4 with a 41 percent chance. The pattern in one line: the frost was this morning, the sunshine does the voting, and the umbrellas wait until Thursday.
