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Barometric pressure in Bahía Blanca

1028hPa
Rising

Pressure rose steadily over the past day. It is 5 hPa higher than this time yesterday. The rise is giving way to a fall that lasts until Wednesday afternoon.

Sea level reading, as of 13:00 local time.

The past week and the days ahead

The shaded part shows the days already gone. The thicker line is the forecast.

now11° / 5°16° / 3°19° / 8°15° / 8°11° / 3°14° / 2°9° / 4°15° / 2°17° / 10°16° / 12°19° / 10°19° / 10°20° / 8°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291000101010201030
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 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Overcast9° / 4°

low 1026 · high 1029 hPa

MonAug 24 −9 hPa

Falls quickly, most of it in the afternoon.

Overcast15° / 2°

low 1019 · high 1027 hPa

TueAug 25 −10 hPa

Falls quickly through the day.

Overcast17° / 10°

low 1009 · high 1018 hPa

WedAug 26 −3 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Light drizzle16° / 12°0.6 mm

low 1003 · high 1008 hPa

ThuAug 27 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle19° / 10°

low 1005 · high 1008 hPa

FriAug 28 +3 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Overcast19° / 10°0.9 mm

low 1007 · high 1010 hPa

SatAug 29 +1 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Overcast20° / 8°

low 1010 · high 1013 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Mainly clear6°1026
01:00Clear sky6°1026
02:00Mainly clear5°1027
03:00Mainly clear5°1027
04:00Mainly clear4°1027
05:00Partly cloudy4°1027
06:00Overcast4°1027
07:00Overcast5°1027
08:00Overcast5°1028
09:00Overcast6°1028
10:00Overcast6°1029
11:00Overcast7°1029
12:00Overcast8°1029
13:00Overcast8°1028
14:00Overcast9°1028
15:00Overcast9°1027
16:00Partly cloudy8°1027
17:00Partly cloudy8°1027
18:00Mainly clear8°1027
19:00Partly cloudy7°1027
20:00Overcast6°1027
21:00Overcast6°1028
22:00Partly cloudy5°1028
23:00Mainly clear4°1028

Tuesday has the week's biggest move: down 10 hPa.

What happens next

The lowest reading, about 1003 hPa, comes on Wednesday afternoon; it climbs from there.

Your own barometer

Bahía Blanca sits 25 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 3 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1025 hPa as of 13:00.

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 Bahía Blanca.

Cities nearby

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

Watching the sun as well? See how strong the UV is in Bahía Blanca right now, on our sister site uvi.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 Bahía Blanca, which stands 25 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 3 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.