Lake Hopatcong USGS rain gage405502074395601
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
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Weather/New Jersey/Netcong
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Netcong until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM (69%).
Now. Netcong is 67° and overcast at 2 PM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 9 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 73° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 62°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:08 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. The day is 11 hours 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Netcong, New Jersey.
Air quality
Index 38, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, North Central (NJ), 10 miles off.
Highest 55, moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.12 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 5 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 5 miles Fri 6 PM.
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The 5 instruments nearest Netcong, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Lake Hopatcong USGS rain gage405502074395601
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW4706EW4706
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/980 ft/22 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Andover/Aeroflex-Andover Airport12N
At an airfield/7.8 mi away/584 ft/374 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Netcong 0.4 NENJ-MS-139
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/934 ft/24 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Rockaway 2NROCN4
At a cooperative observer's station/10.3 mi away/791 ft/167 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.8 mi from Netcong, New Jersey. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:54 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
63.0 F with a dew point of 61.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up.
From the south southwest (210 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
At 584 ft above sea level, 2 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.30 inHg and the temperature at 56.9 F; the station's altimeter setting of 29.75 inHg means its barometer reads 29.13 inHg; it reports 63.0 F, 6.1 F warmer than standard.
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.