Barometric Pressure Forecast for Naaldwijk, Netherlands
Barometric pressure forecast for Naaldwijk, in the Westland glasshouse district of South Holland, a few kilometres from the North Sea between Hook of Holland and The Hague. See current barometric pressure and what it means for weather-sensitive people.
Download Pressure Pal to track barometric pressure and get migraine alerts for Naaldwijk and your area.
Pressure and weather in Naaldwijk
Naaldwijk sits essentially at sea level on reclaimed polder land behind the dunes, in the densest concentration of greenhouses anywhere in the world. Because the ground is flat and at sea level, the raw station reading and the sea-level-adjusted value are effectively the same number here, which is not true of most inland locations. The Dutch coast lies at the eastern end of the North Atlantic storm track, and the autumn and winter half of the year brings a steady succession of depressions crossing from the west or northwest. A strong one can take the barometer down twenty-five to thirty-five hPa in under a day and then drive it back up sharply behind the cold front, and the deepest of these, arriving with a northwesterly gale on a spring tide, are the storm-surge events the Maeslant barrier at the Nieuwe Waterweg just to the south was built to answer. The other side of the Dutch climate is the blocking high, which can settle over Scandinavia or the North Sea for a week or more and hold the reading above 1025 hPa with easterly wind, giving hard frost in winter and fine dry spells in summer. Sea fog drifting in off a cold North Sea is a spring feature.
What this means for you
This coast gets frequent, large winter pressure swings with almost no elevation correction to worry about. A migraine tracker app logging through an autumn depression captures the full depth of the change.