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Barometric pressure in Cité Soleil

1016hPa
Steady

Beneath its daily wave, pressure has barely moved. It holds near this level for the coming days.

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.

now37° / 28°36° / 28°35° / 26°35° / 27°36° / 26°37° / 27°34° / 26°34° / 25°36° / 26°35° / 26°37° / 27°36° / 27°35° / 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 +1 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Drizzle34° / 26°2.7 mm

low 1014 · high 1017 hPa

MonAug 24 +1 hPa

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

Drizzle34° / 25°4.8 mm

low 1014 · high 1017 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle36° / 26°2.1 mm

low 1014 · high 1017 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle35° / 26°3.6 mm

low 1014 · high 1017 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Overcast37° / 27°

low 1012 · high 1016 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle36° / 27°0.6 mm

low 1013 · high 1017 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle35° / 26°1.2 mm

low 1015 · high 1016 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Clear sky29°1016
01:00Clear sky28°1016
02:00Mainly clear27°1016
03:00Mainly clear27°1016
04:00Mainly clear26°1015
05:00Mainly clear26°1015
06:00Mainly clear27°1016
07:00Clear sky28°1016
08:00Clear sky29°1016
09:00Mainly clear30°1016
10:00Mainly clear31°1016
11:00Partly cloudy33°1016
12:00Drizzle33°0.51016
13:00Drizzle34°0.51015
14:00Drizzle34°0.51015
15:00Light drizzle34°0.41014
16:00Light drizzle34°0.41014
17:00Light drizzle33°0.41014
18:00Mainly clear32°1014
19:00Mainly clear31°1015
20:00Mainly clear30°1016
21:00Mainly clear29°1016
22:00Mainly clear28°1017
23:00Mainly clear28°1017

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 Cité Soleil 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

Cité Soleil 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 Cité Soleil.

Cities nearby

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

Out in the sun today? Check the UV level in Cité Soleil, 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. Weather services correct readings to what they would be at sea level, so that cities can be compared. Cité Soleil 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.