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Barometric pressure in Dongyang

1005hPa
Rising

Day to day, pressure has been rising slowly. A rise of 2 hPa since this time yesterday. There is more to come: it climbs until tomorrow morning.

Sea level reading, as of 01:00 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.

now33° / 25°34° / 26°34° / 25°29° / 25°32° / 25°33° / 25°33° / 26°33° / 26°32° / 25°33° / 24°32° / 26°33° / 26°36° / 25°30° / 26°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 30100010051010
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 24 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 26°0.6 mm

low 1005 · high 1008 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

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

Overcast32° / 25°

low 1006 · high 1008 hPa

WedAug 26 −3 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 24°0.9 mm

low 1003 · high 1008 hPa

ThuAug 27 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle32° / 26°4.8 mm

low 1002 · high 1005 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle33° / 26°1.5 mm

low 1001 · high 1004 hPa

SatAug 29 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Clear sky36° / 25°

low 1002 · high 1005 hPa

SunAug 30 +3 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Light rain30° / 26°10.2 mm

low 1003 · high 1006 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast27°1006
01:00Overcast27°1005
02:00Partly cloudy27°1005
03:00Partly cloudy26°1005
04:00Partly cloudy26°1005
05:00Partly cloudy26°1005
06:00Partly cloudy27°1006
07:00Partly cloudy27°1006
08:00Overcast28°1007
09:00Partly cloudy30°1007
10:00Mainly clear31°1007
11:00Clear sky32°1007
12:00Light drizzle33°0.11006
13:00Light drizzle32°0.11006
14:00Light drizzle32°0.11005
15:00Light drizzle31°0.11005
16:00Light drizzle31°0.11005
17:00Light drizzle30°0.11005
18:00Mainly clear29°1006
19:00Mainly clear28°1007
20:00Partly cloudy27°1007
21:00Partly cloudy27°1008
22:00Partly cloudy27°1008
23:00Mainly clear27°1008

Of the seven days, Sunday moves most: up 3 hPa.

What happens next

The highest reading, about 1008 hPa, comes tomorrow morning; it falls from there.

The daily rhythm

In Dongyang pressure moves on a daily clock: about 2 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

Dongyang sits 90 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 10 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 995 hPa as of 01:00.

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 Dongyang.

Cities nearby

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

Wondering how clean the air is? See today's air quality in Dongyang, 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 Dongyang, which stands 90 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 10 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.