Hackensack USGS weather station405245074022401
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/New Jersey/Palisades Park
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM (76%).
Now. Palisades Park is 68° and light drizzle at 12 PM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 10 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 12:00 PM in Palisades Park, New Jersey.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, New York City Region (NY), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 PM.
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On the radar over Palisades Park, New JerseyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Palisades Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
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Hackensack USGS weather station405245074022401
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/3.3 mi away/10 ft/121 ft below here
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Citizen station CW5425CW5425
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/67 ft/64 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Palisades Park 0.2 WNWNJ-BG-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/70 ft/61 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0.2 MI E Of Harrison P.O. Passiac RvrHSNN4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.8 mi away/3 ft/128 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.3 mi from Palisades Park, New Jersey. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:51 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 700 ft; the ceiling is 700 ft; visibility 5 mi.
68.0 F with a dew point of 63.0 F, 84 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 700 ft.
From the south southwest (210 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Teterboro Airport, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at 0.2 MI E Of Harrison P.O. Passiac Rvr (HSNN4), 9.8 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.