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Barometric pressure in Chittoor

1010hPa
Rising

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has risen slowly. A rise of 1 hPa since this time yesterday. It has levelled off and stays close to where it is now for the week ahead.

Sea level reading, as of 23:00 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.

now37° / 27°36° / 26°36° / 24°36° / 25°36° / 26°35° / 26°36° / 24°34° / 25°35° / 26°37° / 26°37° / 25°37° / 26°36° / 25°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291002.51005.01007.51010.01012.5
The forecast runs 6 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

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Light rain36° / 24°10.8 mm

low 1004 · high 1010 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

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

Dense drizzle34° / 25°4.2 mm

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

TueAug 25 +1 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Light drizzle35° / 26°1.2 mm

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle37° / 26°0.6 mm

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Overcast37° / 25°

low 1004 · high 1009 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle37° / 26°0.9 mm

low 1004 · high 1010 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle36° / 25°0.6 mm

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast29°1009
01:00Overcast28°1008
02:00Overcast28°1008
03:00Overcast27°1008
04:00Overcast27°1008
05:00Overcast27°1008
06:00Overcast27°1008
07:00Overcast28°1009
08:00Overcast29°1009
09:00Overcast31°1009
10:00Overcast34°1008
11:00Overcast35°1008
12:00Light drizzle36°0.11007
13:00Light drizzle36°0.11005
14:00Light drizzle36°0.11005
15:00Overcast36°1004
16:00Partly cloudy35°1004
17:00Partly cloudy34°1005
18:00Light rain32°2.31006
19:00Light rain28°2.31008
20:00Light rain25°2.31009
21:00Dense drizzle24°1.21010
22:00Dense drizzle24°1.21010
23:00Dense drizzle25°1.21010

A calm stretch: no day this week moves more than 6 hPa.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

Chittoor has a strong daily rhythm: pressure swings about 5 hPa between a regular low and high, at almost the same hours each day. Most of what the graph shows is that daily wave, which is why the change since yesterday says more here than the change over a few hours.

Your own barometer

Chittoor sits 319 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 36 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 974 hPa as of 23:00.

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 Chittoor.

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 Chittoor 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 Chittoor, which stands 319 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 36 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.