Barnegat, NJ Weather Forecast
Ocean County, New Jersey
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Barnegat, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Coastal Flood Warning in effect for this location
A Coastal Flood Warning is in effect for this location. It runs for about another 10 hours.
It is 48°, but the wind is taking it down to 42° on exposed skin. The sky is scattered rain.
The first rain arrives between 5 AM and 6 AM, with the best chance of it around 11 AM.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
A long wet stretch ahead
The wet part of the window runs from about 5 AM to 11 PM, 18 hours of it, with the highest chance near 11 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.33 in.
It tapers off after 11 PM. Pressure rises 0.07 inHg behind it, which is the drier air arriving. The overnight low settles near 36°. Tomorrow tops out near 47°.
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
31–63°F across the weekThe week runs between 30° and 60°, with Thursday the warmest day of it. The second half leans warming, and today is the coolest day in it. Today is the wettest day, peaking near 79%. 6 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Barnegat, NJ at a glance
Barnegat is home to about 25,629 people in Ocean County, across 34 square miles. It ranks 98th by population of 450 places in New Jersey with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Ocean, 4 miles away.
- County
- Ocean County
- Population
- 25,629 2023 est.
- Land area
- 34 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 749
- Forecast point
- 39.7677°N, 74.2774°W
How well can the network see Barnegat?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDIX (Philadelphia, PA), to the NNW. Its lowest scan passes about 760 ft above Barnegat. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Barnegat show up clearly. Barnegat is closer to its radar than 92% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KMJX (Toms River/Miller Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Barnegat
- Ocean, NJ4 mi
- Stafford, NJ4 mi
- Lacey, NJ6 mi
- Little Egg Harbor, NJ10 mi
- Berkeley, NJ11 mi
- Long Beach, NJ12 mi
- Beachwood, NJ12 mi
- South Toms River, NJ12 mi
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