Oakland, NJ Weather Forecast
Bergen County, New Jersey
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Oakland, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Wet right now, and not done yet
It is 49°, but the wind is taking it down to 47° on exposed skin. Precipitation is falling here now, and the hourly chance is 31%.
That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 1 PM, and it closes quickly after that.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Wet through the window, then cooler and clearing
Wet weather moves in around 1 PM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 1.21 in.
The overnight low settles near 43°. Tomorrow reaches 43°, 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
31–59°F across the weekThe week runs between 30° and 57°, with Wednesday 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 99%. 5 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Oakland, NJ at a glance
Oakland is home to about 12,680 people in Bergen County, across 8.5 square miles. It ranks 196th by population of 450 places in New Jersey with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Franklin Lakes, 2 miles away.
- County
- Bergen County
- Population
- 12,680 2023 est.
- Land area
- 8.5 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,491
- Forecast point
- 41.0310°N, 74.2405°W
How well can the network see Oakland?
The nearest Doppler radar is KOKX (New York City, NY), to the E. Its lowest scan passes about 6,000 ft above Oakland. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Oakland can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KCDW (Caldwell/Essex Cnty). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Oakland
- Franklin Lakes, NJ2 mi
- Wanaque, NJ3 mi
- Pompton Lakes, NJ3 mi
- Wyckoff, NJ4 mi
- Riverdale, NJ5 mi
- Mahwah, NJ5 mi
- Bloomingdale, NJ5 mi
- Ringwood, NJ5 mi
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