Mountainside USGS rain gage404059074223301
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/New Jersey/New Providence
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM, the chance peaking at 70% around 8 PM.
Now. New Providence is 56° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the southeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is likely tomorrow (50%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in New Providence, New Jersey.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Northeast Urban (NJ), 11 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.6 miles Fri 8 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over New Providence, New JerseyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest New Providence, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Mountainside USGS rain gage404059074223301
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW9434FW9434
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/355 ft/139 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/6.8 mi away/187 ft/29 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
New Providence 0.5 ESENJ-UN-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/323 ft/107 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Canoe BrookCHMN4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.9 mi away/188 ft/28 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.8 mi from New Providence, New Jersey. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,200 ft; the ceiling is 2,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 53.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,200 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Morristown Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.