New Jersey Weather, Late Night: 53.4 and Clear Under a Cold Sky — Election Day Votes at 70.7, and Wednesday's Fog Carries the Week's Warmest Air
The late feed keeps Election Day dry and mild for the walk to the polls, then shifts the week's warmth a day later than expected: Wednesday now tops the week at 71.9 under fog, and Thursday's low never leaves the 60s before the rain chances arrive.
New Jersey is cooling into a clear, quiet election eve. The station's live weather feed puts the temperature at 53.4 degrees late Monday night, feeling like 48.2 under a clear sky, with the day's high of 69.2 and low of 42.3 already in the books and precipitation at 1 percent. It is a coat-and-clear-sky night across the state, and nothing in the overnight feed threatens the morning's first voters.
Election Day itself holds the line the desk has forecast all day, with one revision: Tuesday is now expected to reach 70.7 degrees under code-3 skies, with a low of 43.9 and precipitation at just 3 percent. Polls open at 6 a.m. into the 40s and close at 8 p.m. into a mild evening, and voters in line at any hour of the day will do their waiting in dry, comfortable air. There is no weather excuse in this forecast, in either direction.
The week's warmth has shifted a day. Wednesday, under fog (code 45), is now the warmest day of the week at 71.9 degrees with a low of 50.8 and precipitation still at 3 percent — a foggy start that burns into the week's peak. Thursday stays warm at 70.7 but its low never drops below 60.4, and the rain chance jumps to 49 percent; Friday brings drizzle (code 51) at 69.8 with a 53 percent precipitation chance. The weekend then turns the corner: Saturday reaches only 57.8 with a 49 percent rain chance, and Sunday settles at 52.8 with a low of 41.3 — the first genuinely November-feeling days of the stretch, arriving right after the votes are counted.
