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Barometric pressure in Gaomi

1010hPa
Rising

Air pressure has been rising slowly over the last 24 hours. It is 2 hPa higher than this time yesterday. There is more to come: it climbs until tomorrow morning.

Sea level reading, as of 00:00 local time.

The past week and the days ahead

The shaded part shows the days already gone. The thicker line is the forecast.

now31° / 23°32° / 22°31° / 24°31° / 24°30° / 24°31° / 23°30° / 24°31° / 26°33° / 25°32° / 24°32° / 24°32° / 24°30° / 25°30° / 21°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 301000100510101015
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

Barely moves all day.

Light drizzle31° / 26°0.9 mm

low 1008 · high 1011 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle33° / 25°

low 1008 · high 1012 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Partly cloudy32° / 24°

low 1006 · high 1010 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Light drizzle32° / 24°

low 1007 · high 1009 hPa

FriAug 28 −3 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Light drizzle32° / 24°1.5 mm

low 1005 · high 1009 hPa

SatAug 29 −3 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Light drizzle30° / 25°1.5 mm

low 1002 · high 1006 hPa

SunAug 30 +5 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Overcast30° / 21°

low 1003 · high 1007 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Mainly clear27°1010
01:00Clear sky26°1010
02:00Clear sky26°1010
03:00Clear sky26°1010
04:00Mainly clear26°1009
05:00Mainly clear26°1009
06:00Mainly clear26°1010
07:00Mainly clear27°1011
08:00Mainly clear28°1011
09:00Light drizzle29°0.21011
10:00Light drizzle30°0.21011
11:00Light drizzle30°0.21011
12:00Light drizzle31°0.11010
13:00Light drizzle31°0.11009
14:00Light drizzle31°0.11009
15:00Partly cloudy31°1009
16:00Mainly clear31°1008
17:00Mainly clear30°1009
18:00Mainly clear29°1009
19:00Mainly clear28°1010
20:00Mainly clear27°1010
21:00Clear sky27°1010
22:00Clear sky27°1011
23:00Clear sky26°1011

Sunday has the week's biggest move: up 5 hPa.

What happens next

The high point comes tomorrow morning, near 1012 hPa; after that it falls.

Your own barometer

Gaomi sits 32 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 4 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1007 hPa as of 00:00.

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 Gaomi.

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 Gaomi, 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 Gaomi, which stands 32 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 4 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.