Checking the wind
Loading the forecast for this evening.
- Bar: smell risk
- Line: lid on the air
- Arrow: way the air moves
The next few nights
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One more step makes it count. The state only acts when an inspector confirms the smell, so call while it is still in the air:
NJ odor hotline, 24 hours877-927-6337Say: Strong odor from the Ocean County Landfill at my home right now. Please send an inspector to my property tonight, with a hydrogen sulfide meter.
How past nights turned out
Comparing each night's forecast with what neighbors reported.
How this works
The smell shows up on still evenings. When the wind drops near sunset, a low lid forms on the air and anything released near the ground stays there. If the light breeze is coming from the south, it carries air from the Ocean County Landfill across the neighborhood.
For every hour, the forecast checks three things: how weak the wind is, how low the lid is, and whether the wind is coming from the landfill. A weaker signal covers air from the east, where a gas station sits at Route 70 and Whitesville Road. Whether that station contributes is not proven.
What to keep in mind
- This is an estimate from a weather model, tuned on five reported nights in autumn 2026. It is not a measurement and it will be wrong some nights.
- It says whether the air is set up to carry a smell. It cannot know what the landfill is doing that day.
- Light winds are hard to forecast. Direction can be off by 30 degrees.
- Made by a neighbor. Not affiliated with the landfill, Manchester Township or the State of New Jersey.
Weather: Open-Meteo. Reports: residents, anonymous.