Highland Park, NJ Weather Forecast
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Seven-day outlook
52–74°F across the weekForecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.
About the Highland Park forecast
Highland Park sits at 40.5008°N, 74.4279°W in Middlesex County, New Jersey. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.
- County
- Middlesex County
- Coordinates
- 40.5008°N, 74.4279°W
- Population
- 14,959 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 1.821 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Highland Park, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.
How well can the network see Highland Park?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDIX (Philadelphia, PA), 38 miles to the S. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Highland Park its center is about 2,500 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Highland Park to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form. Highland Park is closer to its radar than 58% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KLDJ · Linden Arpt on the ASOS/AWOS network, 12 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.
Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the New Jersey observing network as of this build.
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