New Jersey Weather, Evening: 55.3 and Clear as Election Eve Cools — Election Day Holds at 70.6, and the Week's Warmth Shifts to Wednesday and Thursday
Election Day's line is settled: 70.6, a 44.3 start for the 6 a.m. voters and a 3 percent rain chance. The movement is later in the week — Wednesday and Thursday warm up, Saturday cools down.
Election Eve is cooling under a clear sky in New Jersey. The station's live feed reads 55.3 degrees and clear (code 0), feeling like 50.9, on Monday evening — down from the late afternoon's 59.2 as the last night before the vote settles in. Monday finishes at a high of 69.2 against a low of 42.3, with a precipitation chance that never rose above 1 percent.
Tuesday's forecast has stopped moving, which is what voters want to hear. Election Day's high holds at 70.6 degrees, the morning low is 44.3 — the temperature the first voters will meet when polls open at 6 a.m. — and the rain chance has eased to 3 percent under an overcast code (3). It is, by the numbers, a mild and dry day to vote anywhere in the state.
The revisions are all behind Election Day. Wednesday's high has been revised up to 71.4, from 70.2 in the late-afternoon reading, under a fog code (45) with a low of 49.2 and a 3 percent rain chance. Thursday warms further on paper — a high of 70.7, up sharply from 66.9, and a low of 60.4 — but it carries the week's first real rain chance at 49 percent, and Friday follows at 69.8 with drizzle (code 51) at 53 percent. The weekend then cools hard: Saturday's high has been cut to 57.8, from 62.9, with a 49 percent rain chance, and Sunday reads 52.8 with a low of 41.3 and the rain chance down to 9 percent. Vote in Tuesday's warmth; the colder air is a weekend story.
