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Barometric pressure in Guanare

1014hPa
Rising

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has risen slowly. It is 1 hPa higher than this time yesterday. It has flattened out, and the week ahead keeps it near this level.

Sea level reading, as of 13:00 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° / 24°31° / 23°31° / 24°30° / 25°31° / 24°31° / 24°27° / 23°29° / 23°29° / 23°30° / 23°30° / 23°30° / 23°32° / 23°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291005.01007.51010.01012.51015.01017.5
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 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Rain27° / 23°36.0 mm

low 1012 · high 1016 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Dense drizzle29° / 23°4.2 mm

low 1010 · high 1015 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

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

Light rain29° / 23°12.0 mm

low 1010 · high 1016 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Drizzle30° / 23°7.5 mm

low 1009 · high 1016 hPa

ThuAug 27 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle30° / 23°6.0 mm

low 1008 · high 1013 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Drizzle30° / 23°2.7 mm

low 1009 · high 1015 hPa

SatAug 29 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light rain32° / 23°8.4 mm

low 1010 · high 1014 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Light drizzle25°0.41014
01:00Light drizzle25°0.41013
02:00Light drizzle24°0.41013
03:00Overcast24°1012
04:00Overcast24°1012
05:00Overcast24°1012
06:00Rain24°3.21013
07:00Rain23°3.21014
08:00Rain24°3.21015
09:00Light rain25°1.51016
10:00Light rain26°1.51016
11:00Light rain27°1.51016
12:00Rain27°3.01015
13:00Rain26°3.01014
14:00Rain26°3.01013
15:00Light rain26°1.71013
16:00Light rain26°1.71012
17:00Light rain26°1.71012
18:00Light rain25°2.01012
19:00Light rain25°2.01013
20:00Light rain24°2.01013
21:00Light drizzle24°0.21014
22:00Light drizzle24°0.21015
23:00Light drizzle24°0.21016

A calm stretch: no day this week moves more than 7 hPa.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

Guanare has a strong daily rhythm: pressure swings about 5 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

Guanare sits 153 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 18 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 997 hPa as of 13:00.

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 Guanare.

Cities nearby

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

Watching the sun as well? See how strong the UV is in Guanare right now, on our sister site uvi.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 Guanare, which stands 153 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 18 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.