New Jersey Weather Monday: 42 and Clear at Dawn, 66 by Afternoon — and Election Day's 70.8 Holds for a Second Straight Reading
The forecast has stopped moving, and on Election Day eve that is the story: a dry Monday at a 1 percent rain chance, a warm and dry Tuesday for voters, and the week's rain still waiting until Thursday.
Monday begins at 42.5 degrees, feeling like 38.2, under a clear sky — and the rest of the day is already written. The station's live feed puts Monday's high at 66.2 with a rain chance that has eased to 1 percent, the driest reading of the week. It is the second morning of standard time, and the early darkness now comes with a warming trend instead of the weekend's frost: no advisory is in the feed for this morning.
Election Day's number is the one that matters, and it held. Tuesday's high reads 70.8 degrees for the second straight cycle — still the warmest reading of the week, ahead of Wednesday's 70.1 — with a low of 42.1 and a rain chance of just 4 percent. Voters at the 6 a.m. opening will feel the low 40s; the afternoon line will be standing in shirt-sleeve weather. The overnight low jumping to 55.7 into Wednesday confirms the mild air is settled in, not passing through.
The week's turn remains Thursday, and its price ticked up: the feed's code 80 — showers — now carries a 53 percent rain chance at a high of 69.2, followed by Friday at 64.2 and 57 percent. Saturday cools to 60.4 and Sunday to 58.4. Nothing in the current feed threatens the voting window; the rain arrives after the count.
