Cranbury, NJ Weather Forecast
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Cranbury, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Tornado Watch in effect for this location
A Tornado Watch is in effect for this location. It runs for about another 6 hours. 1 other alert is also out for this point.
It is 62° with a dew point of 54°, which is comfortable for this time of year. Precipitation is falling here now, and the hourly chance is 55%.
The wind backs into the northeast around 6 PM, which is the turn that usually comes ahead of the change rather than after it.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Wet through the window, then cooler and clearing
The wet part of the window runs from about 2 PM to 11 PM, 33 hours of it, with the highest chance near 9 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 1.02 in.
It tapers off after 11 PM. The overnight low settles near 40°. Tomorrow reaches 47°, 12° cooler than today. The humidity goes with it: tomorrow is the more comfortable half of this window, and the safer one for anything outdoors.
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
29–62°F across the weekThe week runs between 29° and 58°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Tomorrow is the wettest day, peaking near 94%. 4 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Cranbury, NJ at a glance
Cranbury is home to about 3,960 people in Middlesex County, across 13 square miles. It ranks 398th by population of 450 places in New Jersey with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Hightstown, 3 miles away.
- County
- Middlesex County
- Population
- 3,960 2023 est.
- Land area
- 13 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 298
- Forecast point
- 40.3135°N, 74.5202°W
How well can the network see Cranbury?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDIX (Philadelphia, PA), to the SSE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,500 ft above Cranbury. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Cranbury show up clearly. Cranbury is closer to its radar than 76% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KTTN (Trenton/Mercer Arpt). Far enough that current conditions for Cranbury are a reading from somewhere else.
Forecasts near Cranbury
- Hightstown, NJ3 mi
- Plainsboro, NJ4 mi
- East Windsor, NJ4 mi
- Monroe, NJ5 mi
- Jamesburg, NJ5 mi
- South Brunswick, NJ5 mi
- West Windsor, NJ6 mi
- Robbinsville, NJ7 mi
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