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Barometric pressure in Cuddalore

1010hPa
Rising

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has risen slowly. Up 1 hPa since this time yesterday. The move has ended; it stays near this level for the coming days.

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.

now34° / 28°35° / 26°34° / 25°34° / 27°34° / 26°34° / 26°34° / 26°33° / 26°33° / 26°33° / 26°34° / 26°34° / 26°33° / 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 rain34° / 26°15.6 mm

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

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

Rain33° / 26°12.3 mm

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

TueAug 25 +1 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Light drizzle33° / 26°0.6 mm

low 1006 · high 1010 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 26°0.6 mm

low 1006 · high 1011 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle34° / 26°2.1 mm

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle34° / 26°

low 1004 · high 1009 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Overcast33° / 25°

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Partly cloudy29°1008
01:00Overcast28°1007
02:00Overcast28°1007
03:00Overcast28°1007
04:00Overcast28°1007
05:00Overcast28°1007
06:00Overcast28°1008
07:00Overcast29°1009
08:00Overcast30°1009
09:00Overcast31°1009
10:00Overcast32°1008
11:00Overcast33°1008
12:00Light drizzle34°0.11007
13:00Light drizzle34°0.11006
14:00Light drizzle33°0.11005
15:00Light drizzle33°0.11005
16:00Light drizzle31°0.11005
17:00Light drizzle30°0.11005
18:00Light rain29°1.91006
19:00Light rain27°1.91008
20:00Light rain26°1.91009
21:00Rain26°3.11009
22:00Rain26°3.11010
23:00Rain26°3.11010

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 Cuddalore 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

Cuddalore 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 Cuddalore.

Cities nearby

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

Watching the sun as well? See how strong the UV is in Cuddalore right now, 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. Cuddalore 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.