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Barometric pressure in Ārabī

1010hPa
Steady

Day to day, pressure has barely moved. Nothing in the week ahead takes it far from where it is now.

Sea level reading, as of 19:00 local time. A barometer in Ārabī itself reads about 897 hPa.

The past week and the days ahead

The shaded part shows the days already gone. The thicker line is the forecast. The thin grey line is the average over a whole day, so you can see where pressure is heading under the daily up and down.

now35° / 24°36° / 23°37° / 23°37° / 23°37° / 22°37° / 24°33° / 21°35° / 24°36° / 21°35° / 23°38° / 25°38° / 25°38° / 25°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29100510101015
The forecast runs 7 days ahead.

The week ahead

Each day at a glance: how far pressure moves, and the low and high it reaches.

TodayAug 23 0 hPa

Climbs in the morning, then settles back.

Clear sky33° / 21°

low 1009 · high 1017 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

Dips in the afternoon, and comes back by the end of the day.

Light drizzle35° / 24°0.5 mm

low 1007 · high 1013 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Drizzle36° / 21°2.8 mm

low 1006 · high 1013 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Clear sky35° / 23°

low 1006 · high 1013 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Partly cloudy38° / 25°

low 1006 · high 1012 hPa

FriAug 28 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Partly cloudy38° / 25°

low 1005 · high 1011 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

Dips in the afternoon, and comes back by the end of the day.

Light drizzle38° / 25°0.6 mm

low 1005 · high 1011 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Mainly clear27°1012
01:00Partly cloudy26°1013
02:00Partly cloudy24°1014
03:00Overcast22°1014
04:00Partly cloudy22°1014
05:00Partly cloudy21°1015
06:00Mainly clear22°1015
07:00Clear sky23°1016
08:00Clear sky25°1016
09:00Clear sky27°1017
10:00Clear sky29°1016
11:00Clear sky30°1015
12:00Clear sky31°1013
13:00Clear sky32°1012
14:00Clear sky33°1011
15:00Clear sky33°1010
16:00Clear sky32°1009
17:00Clear sky31°1009
18:00Clear sky30°1010
19:00Clear sky29°1010
20:00Clear sky27°1011
21:00Clear sky26°1012
22:00Clear sky25°1012
23:00Clear sky24°1012

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 7 hPa.

What happens next

The forecast shows no big move in either direction this week.

The daily rhythm

In Ārabī pressure moves on a daily clock: about 5 hPa between its regular low and high, at much the same hours every day. That daily swing is most of the shape you see on the graph, so the change since yesterday tells you more here than the change over the past few hours.

Your own barometer

Ārabī sits 1061 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 113 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 897 hPa as of 19:00.

The hours already past are the model's record of each hour as it passed, anchored to real observations, though not a reading from an instrument in Ārabī.

Cities nearby

Open one to see its pressure, or search for your own city at the top of the page.

Curious what you are breathing? See the air quality in Ārabī today, on our sister site airindex.today.

Common questions

What is a normal barometric pressure?

Near 1013 hPa at sea level; the exact standard figure, 1013.25 hPa, is the same as 760 mmHg, 29.92 inHg or 101.3 kPa. Anything between roughly 1000 and 1025 hPa is ordinary. Which way it is going matters far more than the number itself.

Why does my own barometer show a different number?

Usually altitude, and sometimes the instrument itself. Weather services correct readings to what they would be at sea level, so that cities can be compared. The figure for Ārabī, which stands 1061 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 113 hPa below the sea-level reading. If your barometer is already set to sea level and still reads slightly differently, that is the setting on the instrument rather than the weather.

Is a millibar the same as a hectopascal?

Yes. One millibar and one hectopascal are exactly the same amount of pressure, so 1013 mbar and 1013 hPa mean the same thing. The name changed; the number did not.

Does falling pressure mean rain?

Not by itself. Away from the tropics, falling pressure usually means a low is approaching, and lows carry the fronts that bring cloud and rain, so the two often arrive together. But a shallow fall can pass with nothing more than cloud, and rain falls under steady pressure too. The graph tells you a system is on the way, not how wet it will be. The week ahead, just above, shows the rain forecast beside the pressure.