New Jersey Weather Sunday Night: 55 and Falling Under Clear Skies, Frost Advisory Until 8 a.m., Then a Mild Monday at 65
The coldest night of the fall so far is arriving on schedule — the station feed bottoms out at 39.4 degrees with a Frost Advisory in effect — and Monday repays it with sunshine and the mid-60s.
Sunday is cooling fast now that the sun is down. The station's live feed read 55.1 degrees and clear late Sunday afternoon, feeling like 50.1, on its way to an overnight low of 39.4 — the same floor the day began with, and cold enough, under clear skies and light wind, for the National Weather Service in Mount Holly's Frost Advisory to run until 8 a.m. Monday. Anything tender still outside — late tomatoes, porch plants that survived Halloween weekend on optimism — should be covered or in tonight.
The advisory is a one-night event, not a pattern. Monday climbs to 65.9 degrees with only a 2 percent chance of rain, and the Election Day forecast behind it still reads 67.7 degrees and dry at 2 percent, with Wednesday clear at 67.1. In other words, the week asks New Jersey to endure exactly one genuinely cold night — tonight — and then votes, commutes and works in weather a full 26 degrees warmer than the morning frost.
Drivers on early Monday rounds in the colder suburbs and the Pine Barrens should expect frosted windshields and, in the usual low spots, a slick sheen on untreated surfaces before the sun gets to work. By mid-morning it will be a memory: this is the kind of cold snap that tests furnaces and garden hoses, not the kind that settles in.
