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Barometric pressure in Hami

1004hPa
Falling

Day to day, pressure has fallen steadily. A drop of 4 hPa since this time yesterday. The fall has eased: it holds near this level, then starts rising tomorrow evening.

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. 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.

now32° / 19°37° / 20°32° / 22°34° / 20°34° / 22°32° / 21°34° / 18°35° / 23°37° / 21°34° / 24°32° / 20°31° / 17°34° / 18°36° / 20°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 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Overcast35° / 23°

low 1004 · high 1008 hPa

TueAug 25 −3 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Clear sky37° / 21°

low 1002 · high 1007 hPa

WedAug 26 +3 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Partly cloudy34° / 24°

low 1003 · high 1008 hPa

ThuAug 27 +3 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Clear sky32° / 20°

low 1007 · high 1011 hPa

FriAug 28 −1 hPa

Climbs in the morning, then settles back.

Clear sky31° / 17°

low 1008 · high 1013 hPa

SatAug 29 −4 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Clear sky34° / 18°

low 1006 · high 1011 hPa

SunAug 30 −4 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Clear sky36° / 20°

low 1002 · high 1008 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Partly cloudy24°1004
01:00Partly cloudy23°1004
02:00Mainly clear23°1004
03:00Partly cloudy23°1005
04:00Partly cloudy23°1005
05:00Overcast23°1005
06:00Overcast23°1006
07:00Overcast23°1006
08:00Overcast24°1007
09:00Overcast25°1007
10:00Overcast27°1008
11:00Overcast28°1008
12:00Overcast30°1008
13:00Overcast32°1007
14:00Overcast33°1007
15:00Partly cloudy34°1006
16:00Mainly clear35°1005
17:00Clear sky35°1005
18:00Clear sky34°1004
19:00Clear sky33°1004
20:00Clear sky32°1004
21:00Clear sky30°1005
22:00Clear sky28°1005
23:00Clear sky27°1006

Saturday has the week's biggest move: down 4 hPa.

What happens next

The low point comes tomorrow evening, near 1002 hPa; after that it rises.

The daily rhythm

Hami 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

Hami sits 767 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 84 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 920 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 Hami.

Cities nearby

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

Wondering if this weather is normal? See what the weather in Hami has done since 1940, on our sister site weatherjourney.com.

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 Hami, which stands 767 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 84 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.