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Barometric pressure in Caála

1014hPa
Falling

Day to day, pressure has fallen slowly. It is 2 hPa lower than this time yesterday. It has levelled off and stays close to where it is now for the week ahead.

Sea level reading, as of 17:00 local time. A barometer in Caála itself reads about 834 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.

now25° / 12°27° / 12°27° / 12°27° / 14°28° / 15°27° / 15°28° / 14°29° / 16°29° / 16°29° / 17°30° / 18°30° / 17°28° / 17°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29101010151020
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

Rises first, then falls away in the morning.

Clear sky28° / 14°

low 1014 · high 1022 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

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

Clear sky29° / 16°

low 1013 · high 1020 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Partly cloudy29° / 16°

low 1012 · high 1019 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Clear sky29° / 17°

low 1011 · high 1018 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

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

Overcast30° / 18°

low 1012 · high 1017 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

Climbs in the morning, then settles back.

Overcast30° / 17°

low 1011 · high 1018 hPa

SatAug 29 +1 hPa

The same daily climb.

Clear sky28° / 17°

low 1013 · high 1018 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Clear sky17°1019
01:00Clear sky17°1019
02:00Clear sky16°1019
03:00Clear sky15°1019
04:00Clear sky15°1019
05:00Clear sky14°1020
06:00Clear sky14°1021
07:00Clear sky15°1022
08:00Clear sky17°1022
09:00Clear sky20°1021
10:00Clear sky23°1021
11:00Clear sky25°1019
12:00Clear sky26°1017
13:00Clear sky27°1016
14:00Clear sky28°1015
15:00Mainly clear28°1014
16:00Mainly clear27°1014
17:00Mainly clear26°1014
18:00Mainly clear24°1015
19:00Mainly clear22°1015
20:00Mainly clear21°1016
21:00Mainly clear21°1017
22:00Clear sky20°1018
23:00Mainly clear20°1018

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 8 hPa.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Caála pressure moves on a daily clock: about 7 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

Caála sits 1743 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 180 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 834 hPa as of 17:00.

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 Caála.

Cities nearby

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

Wondering how clean the air is? See today's air quality in Caála, 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 Caála, which stands 1743 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 180 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.