At an airfield/1.8 mi away/10 ft/72 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/New Jersey/Ridgefield Park
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM (76%).
Now. Ridgefield Park is 61° and light drizzle at 7 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the south at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 7 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (38%).
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 7:00 AM in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, New York City Region (NY), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 27, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 10 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ridgefield Park, New JerseyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Ridgefield Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/1.8 mi away/10 ft/72 ft below here
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Hackensack USGS weather station405245074022401
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
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Citizen station CW5425CW5425
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/67 ft/15 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Palisades Park 0.2 WNWNJ-BG-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/70 ft/12 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0.2 MI E Of Harrison P.O. Passiac RvrHSNN4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/3 ft/79 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.8 mi from Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:51 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 4 mi.
62.0 F with a dew point of 59.0 F, 90 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
From the south (180 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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), 9.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.