Barometric Pressure Forecast for The Hague, Netherlands
Barometric pressure forecast for The Hague, Netherlands — behind the North Sea dune ridge on the coast of Zuid-Holland. See current barometric pressure and what it means for weather-sensitive people.
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Pressure and weather in The Hague
The Hague lies directly behind the dune ridge on the North Sea coast, with the city centre only a couple of kilometres from the beach at Scheveningen and much of the surrounding polder land at or below sea level. There is nothing between the city and the open Atlantic storm track but the width of the North Sea, so depressions arrive here early and close to full strength, and the autumn and winter months bring a steady procession of them with gales, driving rain and falls of twenty-five to thirty-five hPa in a day. The combination that matters most is a deep low tracking north of the country with a long northwesterly fetch behind it, which drives water into the shallow southern North Sea and pushes storm surge against the coastal defences, the scenario that produced the 1953 flood and shaped Dutch engineering ever since. The sea also moderates. Summers are cool and frequently breezy with a dependable afternoon sea breeze, winters are mild and grey rather than cold, and fog forms readily in spring when mild air moves over still-cold water.
What this means for you
Depressions reach this coast early in their track, so the fall is steep and the wind arrives with it rather than after. A barometric pressure forecast gives a genuinely useful day of warning on this shoreline.