Hightstown, NJ Weather Forecast
Mercer County, New Jersey
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Hightstown, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this morning
It is 50° with a dew point of 40°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is mostly cloudy.
The wind turns to the northeast around 5 AM. The first rain arrives between 11 AM and noon, with the best chance of it around 8 AM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 11 AM, and it closes quickly after that.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
A long wet stretch ahead
Wet weather moves in around 11 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.73 in.
The overnight low settles near 48°. Tomorrow reaches 60°, 12° warmer than today. It also gets muggier, so tomorrow will feel warmer than the number on its own suggests.
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
29–61°F across the weekThe week runs between 29° and 60°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Friday is the wettest day, peaking near 100%. 5 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Hightstown, NJ at a glance
Hightstown is home to about 5,853 people in Mercer County, across 1.2 square miles. It ranks 337th by population of 450 places in New Jersey with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is East Windsor, 1 miles away.
- County
- Mercer County
- Population
- 5,853 2023 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 4,747
- Forecast point
- 40.2685°N, 74.5258°W
How well can the network see Hightstown?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDIX (Philadelphia, PA), to the SSE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,300 ft above Hightstown. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Hightstown show up clearly. Hightstown is closer to its radar than 81% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KTTN (Trenton/Mercer Arpt). Far enough that current conditions for Hightstown are a reading from somewhere else.
Forecasts near Hightstown
- East Windsor, NJ1 mi
- Cranbury, NJ3 mi
- Robbinsville, NJ5 mi
- West Windsor, NJ6 mi
- Plainsboro, NJ6 mi
- Monroe, NJ6 mi
- Millstone, NJ6 mi
- Jamesburg, NJ7 mi
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