New Jersey Weather Monday Morning: 44.5 and Clear on the Way to 66.6 — Election Day's 70.8 Holds Again, and Friday Has Been Revised Up to 70
The front of the week is settled: a dry Monday, a warm dry Election Day, a dry Wednesday. The feed's movement is Friday, which now reads 70 degrees even with the week's highest rain chance attached to it.
Monday morning reads 44.5 degrees, feeling like 40.4, under a clear sky on the station's live feed — a few degrees milder than Sunday's frosted start, with no advisory in the current feed. The day tops out at 66.6 with a rain chance of 1 percent, the driest figure of the week, on the second full morning of standard time.
Election Day's forecast has now held through three straight readings, which on the eve of a vote is as close to a promise as a forecast gets: Tuesday's high is 70.8 degrees — still the warmest reading of the early week — with a low of 42.1 for the 6 a.m. poll opening and a rain chance of just 4 percent. Wednesday follows dry at 70.4, revised up slightly, with the overnight low jumping to 55.7, the mild air settling in rather than passing through.
The week's weather is back-loaded, and the back of it just changed. Thursday's showers (code 81) carry a 53 percent rain chance at a cooler 67.5, and Friday now reads a high of 70.0 — revised up from 64.2 in the pre-dawn feed — while keeping the week's highest rain chance at 57 percent under a code 51. Saturday cools to 64.4 at 42 percent and Sunday to 58.2. None of it touches the voting window: New Jersey votes tomorrow in dry, mild weather, and the rain waits until the count is done.
