Barometric Pressure Forecast for Moorestown, New Jersey
Barometric pressure forecast for Moorestown, New Jersey — on the Delaware Valley coastal plain east of Philadelphia, where the I-95 corridor sits on the wrong side of every marginal winter storm. See current barometric pressure and what it means for weather-sensitive people.
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Pressure and weather in Moorestown
Moorestown occupies flat, low ground in Burlington County on the New Jersey side of the Delaware Valley, about ten miles east of Philadelphia and within the Rancocas Creek watershed, with the Pine Barrens beginning a short way southeast. Its elevation is barely above sea level, and that is the crux of its winter weather. The urban corridor from Philadelphia northeast through this part of Burlington County very frequently ends up in the warm nose of a coastal storm, where a shallow layer of milder air aloft turns snow to sleet, so the same system that buries the Lehigh Valley leaves an inch of slush here. The barometric pressure record still shows the full storm, with a long, deep fall as a low develops off the mid-Atlantic coast and intensifies on its way north, but the depth of that low says little about what actually falls. Warm-season weather is driven by heat and moisture rather than by organised systems: the corridor bakes under the Bermuda high with a flat trace for days at a time, broken by afternoon thunderstorms and by squall lines that sweep in from Pennsylvania with a sharp pressure jump and a strong wind surge. The tropical season sometimes brings a weakening hurricane inland with damaging flooding along the creeks. A barometric pressure forecast for Moorestown earns attention from December through March and again in July and August.
What this means for you
Can barometric pressure cause headaches? In the Delaware Valley the winter storms are slow, deep pressure events while the summer squall lines are fast, shallow ones, and the two shapes are easy to tell apart in a log. Use the barometric pressure forecast in Pressure Pal as a migraine tracker app and see which shape your weather migraine days match.