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Barometric pressure in Caruaru

1016hPa
Steady

Day to day, pressure has barely moved. It holds near this level for the coming days.

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. 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.

now27° / 19°25° / 19°27° / 19°25° / 18°28° / 17°30° / 17°29° / 20°26° / 19°26° / 18°26° / 18°27° / 19°27° / 20°26° / 20°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291012.51015.01017.51020.01022.5
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 +1 hPa

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

Overcast29° / 20°

low 1015 · high 1020 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle26° / 19°1.4 mm

low 1016 · high 1020 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle26° / 18°1.6 mm

low 1016 · high 1019 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle26° / 18°1.5 mm

low 1014 · high 1019 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle27° / 19°2.7 mm

low 1014 · high 1018 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle27° / 20°4.4 mm

low 1015 · high 1019 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Overcast26° / 20°0.9 mm

low 1015 · high 1019 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast20°1019
01:00Overcast20°1019
02:00Overcast20°1018
03:00Overcast20°1018
04:00Light drizzle20°0.11018
05:00Light drizzle20°0.11018
06:00Light drizzle20°0.11019
07:00Partly cloudy22°1019
08:00Partly cloudy24°1020
09:00Mainly clear26°1020
10:00Mainly clear27°1019
11:00Partly cloudy28°1018
12:00Partly cloudy29°1017
13:00Overcast28°1016
14:00Overcast28°1016
15:00Overcast26°1015
16:00Overcast25°1016
17:00Overcast23°1017
18:00Overcast22°1017
19:00Overcast21°1018
20:00Overcast21°1019
21:00Overcast20°1020
22:00Overcast20°1020
23:00Overcast20°1019

A quiet week. Nothing moves more than 5 hPa in a day.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Caruaru 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

Caruaru sits 546 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 61 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 955 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 Caruaru.

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 Caruaru 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 Caruaru, which stands 546 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 61 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.