Fortescue, New Jersey Weather
Fortescue, New Jersey — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Fortescue, Cumberland County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Fortescue. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Fortescue is published on the Millville Municipal Airport (KMIV) page, 17 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Fortescue have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Fortescue: Bucks Airport (K00N) 26 km · Chandelle Airport (K0N4) 27 km · Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base (KDOV) 28 km · Delaware Airpark (K33N) 37 km · Southern Cross Airport (KC01) 48 km
Conditions reported at KMIV describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Fortescue specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Fortescue.
About Fortescue, New Jersey
Fortescue rests on the cusp of the Delaware Bay, a place where the land exhales its salt-laced breath and the sky stretches wide, often painted in the pearly grays and bruised purples of coastal weather. It lies 13.4 miles south-south-west of Millville, NJ (from Millville, NJ: bearing 212°T), and is situated 7.7 miles west of Maurice River. The terrain here is flat, a gentle declension towards the water, marked by the occasional stand of maritime pines and the wide, open fields that speak of agriculture. The air, especially in the liminal hours of dawn and dusk, carries a distinct tang, a blend of brine and damp earth, and a quiet stillness settles over the landscape, broken only by the distant cry of gulls or the low murmur of the tide. The history of Fortescue is tied to the bounty of the bay, a small harbor that once bustled with oystermen and fishermen whose lives were dictated by the ebb and flow of the tides. For generations, this has been a place of modest enterprise, its economy rooted in the seafood industry that continues to draw a steady, if unpretentious, livelihood from the surrounding waters. Though not a place of grand monuments, Fortescue possesses a quiet dignity, a sense of enduring purpose in its simple existence, where the rhythm of daily life is often measured by the coming and going of the fishing boats and the changing moods of the bay.
Live animated radar for Fortescue and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Fortescue, Cumberland County, New Jersey |
| Coordinates | 39.237614°N, 75.171575°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 08321 |
| Area Code | 609, 640 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Fortescue, New Jersey Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fortescue, New Jersey, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Fortescue includes coordinates 39.237614°N, 75.171575°W, situated in Cumberland County. ZIP code 08321. Telephone area code: 609, 640. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
