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Barometric pressure in Girardot City

1011hPa
Falling

Day to day, pressure has fallen slowly. It is 1 hPa lower than this time yesterday. The move has ended; it stays near this level for the coming days.

Sea level reading, as of 11:00 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.

now31° / 23°33° / 24°37° / 24°37° / 26°37° / 26°34° / 23°35° / 25°38° / 23°36° / 24°36° / 23°36° / 23°36° / 23°35° / 23°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291000100510101015
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 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle35° / 25°0.4 mm

low 1005 · high 1013 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle38° / 23°4.1 mm

low 1002 · high 1012 hPa

TueAug 25 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Drizzle36° / 24°4.1 mm

low 1003 · high 1012 hPa

WedAug 26 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle36° / 23°10.3 mm

low 1004 · high 1012 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

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

Drizzle36° / 23°5.0 mm

low 1002 · high 1011 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle36° / 23°3.9 mm

low 1003 · high 1012 hPa

SatAug 29 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle35° / 23°2.8 mm

low 1005 · high 1012 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast27°1011
01:00Overcast27°1011
02:00Overcast27°1011
03:00Overcast26°1010
04:00Overcast26°1010
05:00Overcast25°1011
06:00Partly cloudy25°1011
07:00Partly cloudy26°1012
08:00Partly cloudy27°1012
09:00Partly cloudy29°1013
10:00Overcast31°1012
11:00Overcast32°1011
12:00Partly cloudy33°1010
13:00Partly cloudy33°1008
14:00Light drizzle34°0.11007
15:00Light drizzle35°0.11005
16:00Light drizzle35°0.11005
17:00Overcast34°1005
18:00Overcast31°1006
19:00Overcast30°1008
20:00Overcast29°1009
21:00Overcast28°1011
22:00Overcast28°1012
23:00Light drizzle27°0.11012

A calm stretch: no day this week moves more than 10 hPa.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

Girardot City has a strong daily rhythm: pressure swings about 7 hPa between a regular low and high, at almost the same hours each day. Most of what the graph shows is that daily wave, which is why the change since yesterday says more here than the change over a few hours.

Your own barometer

Girardot City sits 292 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 33 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 979 hPa as of 11:00.

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 Girardot City.

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 Girardot City, 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 Girardot City, which stands 292 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 33 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.