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Barometric pressure in Broken Arrow

1017hPa
Steady

Day to day, pressure has barely moved. From here it heads down until tomorrow afternoon.

Sea level reading, as of 12:00 local time.

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.

now31° / 23°38° / 22°39° / 29°37° / 24°35° / 23°31° / 24°33° / 21°36° / 26°36° / 25°35° / 26°35° / 24°36° / 23°35° / 25°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291005101010151020
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 −4 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Overcast33° / 21°

low 1012 · high 1018 hPa

MonAug 24 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Overcast36° / 26°

low 1009 · high 1013 hPa

TueAug 25 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Overcast36° / 25°

low 1010 · high 1013 hPa

WedAug 26 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Partly cloudy35° / 26°

low 1012 · high 1015 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

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

Overcast35° / 24°

low 1013 · high 1016 hPa

FriAug 28 −1 hPa

Climbs in the morning, then settles back.

Mainly clear36° / 23°

low 1014 · high 1018 hPa

SatAug 29 −3 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Clear sky35° / 25°

low 1011 · high 1016 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Mainly clear25°1017
01:00Partly cloudy24°1017
02:00Partly cloudy23°1017
03:00Partly cloudy23°1017
04:00Partly cloudy22°1017
05:00Partly cloudy22°1017
06:00Overcast21°1017
07:00Overcast22°1017
08:00Overcast23°1017
09:00Overcast25°1018
10:00Overcast26°1018
11:00Partly cloudy28°1017
12:00Partly cloudy29°1017
13:00Partly cloudy30°1017
14:00Partly cloudy31°1016
15:00Overcast32°1015
16:00Overcast33°1014
17:00Partly cloudy33°1013
18:00Mainly clear33°1012
19:00Mainly clear32°1012
20:00Mainly clear31°1012
21:00Partly cloudy29°1013
22:00Partly cloudy28°1013
23:00Partly cloudy28°1013

Today has the week's biggest move: down 4 hPa.

What happens next

The low point comes tomorrow afternoon, near 1009 hPa; after that it rises.

The daily rhythm

In Broken Arrow pressure moves on a daily clock: about 4 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

Broken Arrow sits 231 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 26 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 991 hPa as of 12:00.

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 Broken Arrow.

Cities nearby

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

Is this weather normal for the season? See how these days compare with Broken Arrow weather since 1940, on our sister site weatherjourney.com.

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 Broken Arrow, which stands 231 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 26 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.