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Barometric pressure in Fengcheng

1004hPa
Steady

Day to day, pressure has barely moved. A fall is beginning, and runs until Wednesday afternoon.

Sea level reading, as of 02:00 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.

now36° / 27°33° / 26°30° / 24°32° / 25°32° / 24°35° / 26°37° / 27°36° / 28°37° / 26°37° / 27°36° / 27°35° / 26°33° / 25°29° / 24°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 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle36° / 28°

low 1000 · high 1005 hPa

TueAug 25 +1 hPa

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

Light drizzle37° / 26°1.2 mm

low 1000 · high 1006 hPa

WedAug 26 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Clear sky37° / 27°

low 999 · high 1005 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

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

Light drizzle36° / 27°1.5 mm

low 1000 · high 1005 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle35° / 26°4.8 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

SatAug 29 +1 hPa

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

Dense drizzle33° / 25°12.3 mm

low 1002 · high 1005 hPa

SunAug 30 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Drizzle29° / 24°15.0 mm

low 1005 · high 1007 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Mainly clear29°1005
01:00Clear sky29°1004
02:00Clear sky28°1004
03:00Clear sky28°1004
04:00Clear sky28°1004
05:00Clear sky28°1004
06:00Clear sky28°1004
07:00Clear sky29°1005
08:00Clear sky29°1005
09:00Clear sky30°1005
10:00Clear sky31°1005
11:00Clear sky32°1005
12:00Clear sky34°1004
13:00Clear sky35°1003
14:00Clear sky36°1002
15:00Light drizzle36°0.11001
16:00Light drizzle35°0.11000
17:00Light drizzle35°0.11000
18:00Mainly clear34°1000
19:00Mainly clear33°1001
20:00Mainly clear32°1002
21:00Mainly clear31°1002
22:00Mainly clear31°1003
23:00Mainly clear30°1004

A quiet week. Nothing moves more than 6 hPa in a day.

What happens next

The lowest reading, about 999 hPa, comes on Wednesday afternoon; it climbs from there.

The daily rhythm

In Fengcheng 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

Fengcheng sits 312 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 35 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 969 hPa as of 02:00.

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 Fengcheng.

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 Fengcheng, 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 Fengcheng, which stands 312 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 35 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.