Barometric Pressure Forecast for Clifton, New Jersey
Barometric pressure forecast for Clifton, New Jersey — in the Passaic River valley below the Watchung ridges just west of New York City, where coastal storms and tropical remnants both hit hard. See current barometric pressure and what it means for weather-sensitive people.
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Pressure and weather in Clifton
Clifton lies in Passaic County about ten miles west of Manhattan, on the floor of the Passaic River valley with the first and second Watchung ridges rising to the west and the Great Falls at Paterson just upstream. The valley setting is more than scenic: the Passaic drains a large basin and moves slowly through this stretch, which is why heavy rainfall events cause flooding here that surprises people who assume proximity to a major city means proximity to solid ground. Barometric pressure here is dominated by the eastern seaboard storm track. From late autumn through March, lows moving up from the Carolinas or forming off the Delmarva coast deepen as they approach New England, delivering the region's largest falls in current barometric pressure along with the perennial northern New Jersey question of whether the storm will be snow, sleet or rain — the answer often turning on a couple of degrees and the exact track. The other major driver is tropical. In late summer and early autumn the remnants of systems that came ashore further south track up through the Mid-Atlantic, and the Passaic valley has taken serious flooding from several of them, most memorably in September 2021. Those events bring a slow, deep pressure fall over a day or more. Spring is changeable with strong fronts and occasional severe storms. Summer is hot, humid and barometrically flat, with afternoon thunderstorms and city heat added on top. A barometric pressure forecast for Clifton matters most from November through April and again in September.
What this means for you
Can barometric pressure cause headaches? Northern New Jersey gets both the fast deep falls of winter coastal storms and the slow prolonged falls of tropical remnants, and many weather-sensitive people respond differently to the two. Watching the shape of the change, not just its size, is worth doing here. Use this barometric pressure forecast with Pressure Pal as a headache tracking app to see pressure change today and get warning before the next system moves up the coast.