Above the Hook Today · Sunday, October 11, 2026

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Weather

66° / 58°

Rain

Rain. Cloudy, with a high near 66. East wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

Monday A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7am, then showers and thunderstorms likely between 7am and 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 70. North wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. 70° / 57°

Tuesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 71. East wind 0 to 5 mph. 71° / 62°

Forecast from the National Weather Service for Highlands, issued Sunday 8:09 a.m.

The water

WindE 15 mph, 13 knots

MoonWaxing crescent

Water65°

StationSandy Hook

Worth watching. A high tide of 5.9 feet is predicted at 8:46 a.m., above the 5.8-foot mark we watch, and the moon is near its new or full phase and an onshore E wind of 15 mph is forecast, which pushes more water into the bay. Watch the evening high tides along Shore Drive and Bay Avenue, and check the National Weather Service marine forecast before you go.

Tide predictions from NOAA, Sandy Hook station 8531680, drawn from the six-minute predictions. Water temperature from NOAA Sandy Hook 8531680, read Sunday 10:12 a.m.

Your water

Next 48 hours. Wind from the NWS hourly forecast for Highlands, issued Sunday 8:09 a.m.; bars show sustained wind, ticks show gusts. Tides from NOAA, Sandy Hook. Ratings are guidance for planning, not a safety call. Check the NWS marine forecast and your own judgement before you go. NWS marine forecast

See the hours as a table

Hour	Wind	Gust	Rain
Sunday 10a	E 15 mph	26 mph	65%
Sunday 11a	E 15 mph	28 mph	94%
Sunday 12p	E 15 mph	28 mph	89%
Sunday 1p	E 15 mph	29 mph	78%
Sunday 2p	E 15 mph	28 mph	74%
Sunday 3p	E 15 mph	29 mph	93%
Sunday 4p	E 15 mph	31 mph	95%
Sunday 5p	E 15 mph	31 mph	100%
Sunday 6p	E 15 mph	31 mph	95%
Sunday 7p	E 15 mph	32 mph	90%
Sunday 8p	E 15 mph	29 mph	90%
Sunday 9p	E 15 mph	24 mph	66%
Sunday 10p	E 10 mph	22 mph	60%
Sunday 11p	NE 10 mph	18 mph	70%
Monday 12a	NE 10 mph	16 mph	77%
Monday 1a	NE 10 mph	15 mph	57%
Monday 2a	N 10 mph	15 mph	52%
Monday 3a	N 10 mph	17 mph	41%
Monday 4a	N 10 mph	20 mph	43%
Monday 5a	N 15 mph	22 mph	61%
Monday 6a	N 15 mph	21 mph	30%
Monday 7a	N 15 mph	22 mph	56%
Monday 8a	N 15 mph	23 mph	39%
Monday 9a	N 15 mph	23 mph	37%
Monday 10a	N 15 mph	23 mph	16%
Monday 11a	N 15 mph	22 mph	14%
Monday 12p	N 10 mph	20 mph	6%
Monday 1p	N 10 mph	18 mph	0%
Monday 2p	N 10 mph	17 mph	0%
Monday 3p	N 10 mph	15 mph	0%
Monday 4p	NW 5 mph	14 mph	0%
Monday 5p	NW 5 mph	13 mph	0%
Monday 6p	NW 5 mph	12 mph	0%
Monday 7p	NW 5 mph	10 mph	0%
Monday 8p	NW 10 mph	12 mph	0%
Monday 9p	0 mph	8 mph	0%
Monday 10p	0 mph	8 mph	0%
Monday 11p	0 mph	9 mph	0%
Tuesday 12a	0 mph	9 mph	0%
Tuesday 1a	0 mph	9 mph	0%
Tuesday 2a	0 mph	8 mph	0%
Tuesday 3a	0 mph	7 mph	0%
Tuesday 4a	0 mph	7 mph	0%
Tuesday 5a	0 mph	6 mph	0%
Tuesday 6a	0 mph	6 mph	0%
Tuesday 7a	0 mph	6 mph	0%
Tuesday 8a	0 mph	6 mph	0%
Tuesday 9a	E 5 mph	7 mph	0%

Your town

Highlands

Today and this week

From the town

Each morning this section will carry what the borough posted: meetings and agendas, closures, and short notes with a link to the source. The sources above are the ones we read. Nothing has been gathered yet, so nothing is shown.

From the archive

The summer town that was taken back

For more than six decades, the Sandlass family ran Highland Beach, a resort on the narrow strip of sand where Sandy Hook meets the mainland. Families came by boat and by train to swim, eat, dance, and stay the season.

It lasted from 1900 to 1962, when the state took the land by eminent domain and the resort came down. Almost nothing of it remains. The family's 1893 home, now known as Building 600, is one of the last pieces still standing.

Stand at the foot of the Highlands bridge this morning and look toward the Hook. That stretch of beach was once someone's whole summer.

Today against the record

Right about normal for October 11. The record is 87°, set in 1914.

Normal range Forecast Record high and low

Normals 1991-2020 and records since 1907 from the Long Branch-Oakhurst record, the nearest long official record to the Bayshore and the closest one still reporting. Today's records draw on 107 years of observations for this date. Forecast from the National Weather Service for Highlands. Small dots are what was actually recorded earlier this month.

See October as a table

Day	Normal	Recorded	Record high	Record low
Oct 1	53–71°	57–76°	87° (1986)	35° (1947)
Oct 2	52–71°	57–79°	85° (1986)	37° (1997)
Oct 3	52–70°	63–87°	95° (2019)	35° (2003)
Oct 4	52–70°	62–69°	88° (1941)	32° (1945)
Oct 5	51–69°	54–63°	95° (1941)	33° (1935)
Oct 6	51–69°	49–70°	91° (1941)	34° (1943)
Oct 7	50–69°	41–65°	87° (1944)	32° (1984)
Oct 8	50–68°	41–67°	84° (1990)	32° (1935)
Oct 9	49–68°	49–77°	85° (1916)	34° (1937)
Oct 10	49–68°	48–74°	89° (1939)	34° (1989)
Oct 11	49–67°	48–68°	87° (1914)	31° (1929)
Oct 12	48–67°	—	85° (1954)	31° (1964)
Oct 13	48–66°	—	85° (1954)	32° (1917)
Oct 14	47–66°	—	82° (1920)	32° (1934)
Oct 15	47–66°	—	82° (1960)	29° (1937)
Oct 16	47–65°	—	85° (1908)	29° (1944)
Oct 17	46–65°	—	86° (1938)	31° (1937)
Oct 18	46–65°	—	85° (1908)	28° (1978)
Oct 19	46–64°	—	82° (1945)	29° (1948)
Oct 20	45–64°	—	83° (2016)	29° (1974)
Oct 21	45–64°	—	83° (1947)	27° (1952)
Oct 22	45–63°	—	84° (1979)	27° (1940)
Oct 23	44–63°	—	84° (1947)	27° (1997)
Oct 24	44–63°	—	80° (1978)	26° (1969)
Oct 25	44–62°	—	74° (1920)	29° (1962)
Oct 26	43–62°	—	76° (1947)	28° (1933)
Oct 27	43–62°	—	79° (1947)	27° (1928)
Oct 28	43–61°	—	86° (1919)	25° (1976)
Oct 29	42–61°	—	83° (2023)	28° (1985)
Oct 30	42–61°	—	83° (1946)	28° (1910)
Oct 31	42–60°	—	83° (1946)	24° (1983)

Daylight

11 hours 19 minutes today, and 3 minutes less tomorrow.

Sunrise7:02

Sunset6:21

Clocks back Nov 1 Sunset moves to about 4:52 on Nov 1

Computed for Highlands at 40.4026, -73.9879.

The sky

A waxing crescent moon, 1% lit.

The full Hunter's Moon comes on October 26. The next new moon is November 9.

Today Thirty nights ahead

Full Hunter's Moon, Oct 26 New moon, Nov 9

Phase and illumination computed for Highlands. The moon strip reads left to right, starting today.

The water is rising

The bay at Sandy Hook sits about 16 inches higher than in 1932.

Flood days now 12.7 A year, averaged over the last 10 years on record

Flood days then 0.7 A year, 1922-1939

Rate of rise 4.27 mm A year, give or take 0.04 inches a decade

Ordinary high tides now reach streets that used to stay dry. The rate at Sandy Hook is 4.27 millimetres a year, partly because the land here is slowly sinking.

Source: NOAA relative sea level trends, Sandy Hook 8531680, 1932–2025, 1.68 inches a decade plus or minus 0.04. Flood day counts from NOAA's high-tide flooding record for the same station. The line shows the long-term trend, not yearly readings.