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Barometric pressure in Gereida

1009hPa
Falling

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has fallen slowly. It stands 2 hPa lower than it did at this time yesterday. The move has ended; it stays near this level for the coming days.

Sea level reading, as of 18:00 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.

now35° / 24°36° / 24°31° / 23°36° / 24°36° / 26°35° / 24°37° / 24°38° / 26°38° / 27°38° / 24°38° / 25°37° / 26°32° / 26°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29100510101015
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 0 hPa

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

Partly cloudy37° / 24°

low 1009 · high 1016 hPa

MonAug 24 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Overcast38° / 26°

low 1006 · high 1013 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Partly cloudy38° / 27°

low 1005 · high 1011 hPa

WedAug 26 +1 hPa

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

Clear sky38° / 24°3.9 mm

low 1004 · high 1012 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Clear sky38° / 25°

low 1005 · high 1012 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle37° / 26°

low 1007 · high 1012 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Climbs in the morning, then settles back.

Light drizzle32° / 26°1.8 mm

low 1009 · high 1012 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Clear sky27°1012
01:00Clear sky27°1012
02:00Clear sky26°1012
03:00Clear sky25°1012
04:00Mainly clear25°1012
05:00Mainly clear24°1012
06:00Mainly clear25°1013
07:00Mainly clear26°1015
08:00Mainly clear27°1015
09:00Mainly clear29°1016
10:00Partly cloudy31°1015
11:00Partly cloudy33°1015
12:00Partly cloudy35°1014
13:00Mainly clear36°1012
14:00Mainly clear37°1011
15:00Clear sky37°1010
16:00Clear sky36°1009
17:00Clear sky36°1009
18:00Clear sky34°1009
19:00Clear sky32°1010
20:00Clear sky31°1010
21:00Mainly clear30°1011
22:00Overcast30°1012
23:00Overcast30°1012

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 8 hPa.

What happens next

Nothing in the week ahead moves pressure far from where it is now.

The daily rhythm

In Gereida pressure moves on a daily clock: about 5 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

Gereida sits 480 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 52 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 957 hPa as of 18:00.

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 Gereida.

Cities nearby

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

Curious what you are breathing? See the air quality in Gereida today, 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 Gereida, which stands 480 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 52 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.