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Barometric pressure in Brownsville

1016hPa
Steady

Beneath its daily wave, pressure has barely moved. Nothing in the week ahead takes it far from where it is now.

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.

now34° / 26°36° / 26°34° / 27°36° / 28°37° / 27°38° / 27°37° / 26°37° / 26°36° / 26°36° / 27°37° / 26°36° / 27°36° / 26°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291010.01012.51015.01017.51020.0
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

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

Light drizzle37° / 26°

low 1013 · high 1016 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

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

Clear sky37° / 26°

low 1013 · high 1016 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle36° / 26°0.6 mm

low 1013 · high 1016 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle36° / 27°1.2 mm

low 1012 · high 1015 hPa

ThuAug 27 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Mainly clear37° / 26°

low 1011 · high 1015 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle36° / 27°2.4 mm

low 1013 · high 1015 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle36° / 26°2.4 mm

low 1013 · high 1016 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Clear sky27°1016
01:00Clear sky27°1016
02:00Clear sky27°1015
03:00Clear sky27°1015
04:00Clear sky27°1015
05:00Clear sky26°1015
06:00Clear sky26°1015
07:00Clear sky26°1015
08:00Clear sky27°1015
09:00Clear sky29°1016
10:00Clear sky31°1016
11:00Clear sky33°1016
12:00Clear sky35°1016
13:00Mainly clear37°1016
14:00Light drizzle37°0.11015
15:00Light drizzle37°0.11014
16:00Light drizzle37°0.11014
17:00Clear sky36°1014
18:00Clear sky34°1013
19:00Clear sky32°1014
20:00Clear sky31°1014
21:00Clear sky29°1015
22:00Clear sky28°1015
23:00Clear sky28°1016

A quiet week. Nothing moves more than 4 hPa in a day.

What happens next

Nothing in the week ahead moves pressure far from where it is now.

The daily rhythm

In Brownsville pressure moves on a daily clock: about 3 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

Brownsville sits 14 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 2 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1015 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 Brownsville.

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 Brownsville 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 Brownsville, which stands 14 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 2 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.