At a river or reservoir gauge/1.8 mi away/23 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/New Jersey/Absecon Highlands
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 10 PM, the chance peaking at 73% around 6 AM.
Now. Absecon Highlands is 73° and overcast at 2 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (88%). Rain is possible Monday (44%), Tuesday (31%) and Thursday (30%). The windiest day is Monday, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Absecon Highlands, New Jersey.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, South Coastal (NJ), 6 miles off.
Highest 51, moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 3 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Absecon Highlands, New JerseyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Absecon Highlands, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.8 mi away/23 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW1941GW1941
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/47 ft/19 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/5.2 mi away/66 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Galloway Twp 3.5 SNJ-AT-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/16 ft/12 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Abseeum Channel Usgc BaseATLN4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.5 mi away/1 ft/27 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.2 mi from Absecon Highlands, New Jersey. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,100 ft; the ceiling is 1,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
72.0 F with a dew point of 66.0 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,100 ft.
From the south southwest (210 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.