Barometric Pressure Forecast for Ashford, United Kingdom
Barometric pressure forecast for Ashford, United Kingdom — in the Kent Weald between the North Downs and the Channel coast. See current barometric pressure and what it means for weather-sensitive people.
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Pressure and weather in Ashford
Ashford lies in the Kentish Weald, in the low ground between the chalk ridge of the North Downs to the north and the Channel coast twenty miles to the south-east. Britain sits at the end of the North Atlantic storm track, and that gives Ashford one of the most restless barometers in Europe. From October through February depressions form near Newfoundland, deepen as they cross the ocean and arrive in a near-continuous procession, each one bringing a fall as the warm front approaches, a lull in the warm sector, and a brisk rise behind the cold front. Deep autumn lows can drop the pressure below 970 hectopascals across southern England, and the strongest storms of recent decades have tracked across exactly this corner of Kent. The opposite extreme is blocking. When a high anchors over Scandinavia or Greenland the westerlies are diverted, the barometer locks up for a week or more, and the wind swings round to the east — in winter that means the bitter continental outbreaks that reach Kent first, and in summer it means the settled heat that builds over the Weald with almost no movement on the chart.
What this means for you
Few places give you as many distinct pressure events per season as south-east England, which makes this an unusually good place to find a real pattern in your own data. Logging symptoms against a barometric pressure forecast in a migraine tracker app over a single Ashford winter will give you far more usable events than a year would in a calmer climate.