Citizen station GW3531GW3531
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/7 ft/184 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Weather/New Jersey/Union City
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM (76%).
Now. Union City is 60° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is likely tomorrow (62%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:15 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:06 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Union City, New Jersey.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Northeast Urban (NJ), 10 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 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 11 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Union City, New JerseyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Union City, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW3531GW3531
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/7 ft/184 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
The BatteryNDBC-BATN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/6.4 mi away/10 ft/181 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hoboken 0.3 WNJ-HD-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/6 ft/185 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0.2 MI E Of Harrison P.O. Passiac RvrHSNN4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/3 ft/188 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.4 mi from Union City, New Jersey. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:51 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 5,500 ft, overcast at 8,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
60.0 F with a dew point of 50.0 F, 69 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,500 ft.
From the south southeast (160 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light 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), 5.4 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.