Barometric Pressure Forecast for Deerfield Beach, Florida
Barometric pressure forecast for Deerfield Beach, Florida — on the Broward County coast at the Hillsboro Inlet, between the Atlantic beach and the Intracoastal. See current barometric pressure and what it means for weather-sensitive people.
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Pressure and weather in Deerfield Beach
Deerfield Beach occupies a narrow strip of barrier and near-shore land where the Hillsboro Inlet cuts through to the Atlantic, with the Intracoastal Waterway a few blocks inland and the Everglades edge only a short drive west. Nothing here rises more than a few metres, so the local pressure record is driven almost entirely by what crosses the water. From June through November the Atlantic hurricane season dominates, and even a storm passing well offshore in the Bahamas channel will produce a long slow pressure decline over a day or more, quite unlike the abrupt drops of a mid-latitude front. The summer wet season runs on the sea breeze, which pushes inland each afternoon and collides with the Everglades breeze to fire thunderstorms roughly twenty miles west of the coast. Winter is the settled half of the year, broken by cold fronts that sweep down the peninsula, stall near the Keys and swing the wind to the northeast for a few blustery days.
What this means for you
Tropical systems produce the slowest and deepest pressure falls of any weather on earth, which is why a weather migraine here can build over two days rather than two hours. Watching the barometric pressure forecast through hurricane season is the single most useful habit on this coast.