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Barometric pressure in Chetumal

1016hPa
Falling

Day to day, pressure has fallen slowly. It stands 1 hPa lower than it did at this time yesterday. It has levelled off and stays close to where it is now for the week ahead.

Sea level reading, as of 11:00 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° / 24°33° / 25°34° / 25°34° / 25°34° / 25°33° / 26°33° / 25°34° / 24°33° / 25°33° / 25°32° / 24°32° / 25°34° / 25°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291010.01012.51015.01017.5
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 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle33° / 25°0.9 mm

low 1013 · high 1017 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Overcast34° / 24°

low 1013 · high 1016 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 25°1.2 mm

low 1012 · high 1016 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle33° / 25°1.9 mm

low 1011 · high 1015 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle32° / 24°5.3 mm

low 1011 · high 1015 hPa

FriAug 28 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Dense drizzle32° / 25°5.1 mm

low 1013 · high 1016 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle34° / 25°1.2 mm

low 1014 · high 1016 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast27°1017
01:00Overcast27°1016
02:00Light drizzle27°0.11016
03:00Light drizzle26°0.11015
04:00Light drizzle26°0.11015
05:00Light drizzle26°0.21015
06:00Light drizzle25°0.21015
07:00Light drizzle26°0.21015
08:00Overcast27°1015
09:00Overcast29°1015
10:00Overcast30°1016
11:00Overcast32°1016
12:00Overcast32°1016
13:00Overcast33°1015
14:00Partly cloudy33°1015
15:00Mainly clear33°1014
16:00Mainly clear33°1013
17:00Mainly clear32°1013
18:00Partly cloudy30°1014
19:00Partly cloudy29°1015
20:00Partly cloudy28°1015
21:00Mainly clear27°1016
22:00Mainly clear26°1016
23:00Partly cloudy26°1016

A calm stretch: no day this week moves more than 4 hPa.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Chetumal 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

Chetumal is at sea level, so a barometer there reads about the same as the sea-level figure.

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 Chetumal.

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 Chetumal 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. Weather services correct readings to what they would be at sea level, so that cities can be compared. Chetumal is at sea level, so there is almost nothing to correct and the two figures agree.

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.