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Barometric pressure in Hāpur

1004hPa
Rising

Beneath its daily wave, pressure has risen slowly. Up 1 hPa since this time yesterday. The rise has eased: it holds near this level, then starts falling tomorrow morning.

Sea level reading, as of 22:00 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.

now33° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 27°32° / 26°33° / 27°31° / 25°31° / 26°31° / 25°32° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 25°33° / 26°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29995.0997.51000.01002.51005.01007.5
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 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle31° / 26°3.9 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

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

Dense drizzle31° / 25°12.3 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle32° / 26°4.5 mm

low 1001 · high 1004 hPa

WedAug 26 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle32° / 26°0.9 mm

low 999 · high 1004 hPa

ThuAug 27 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle32° / 26°0.9 mm

low 998 · high 1003 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle32° / 25°3.3 mm

low 998 · high 1002 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Overcast33° / 26°

low 997 · high 1002 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast28°1003
01:00Partly cloudy27°1003
02:00Partly cloudy27°1002
03:00Drizzle26°0.61002
04:00Drizzle26°0.61003
05:00Drizzle26°0.61003
06:00Light drizzle26°0.11004
07:00Light drizzle27°0.11004
08:00Light drizzle28°0.11005
09:00Light drizzle28°0.31005
10:00Light drizzle29°0.31005
11:00Light drizzle29°0.31005
12:00Overcast30°1005
13:00Overcast31°1003
14:00Overcast31°1002
15:00Partly cloudy31°1002
16:00Partly cloudy31°1001
17:00Mainly clear31°1001
18:00Light drizzle31°0.11002
19:00Light drizzle30°0.11002
20:00Light drizzle29°0.11003
21:00Light drizzle28°0.21004
22:00Light drizzle27°0.21004
23:00Light drizzle27°0.21004

A calm stretch: no day this week moves more than 6 hPa.

What happens next

Pressure tops out near 1005 hPa tomorrow morning, and falls after that.

The daily rhythm

In Hāpur pressure moves on a daily clock: about 4 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

Hāpur sits 220 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 25 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 979 hPa as of 22:00.

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 Hāpur.

Cities nearby

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

Is this weather normal for the season? See how these days compare with Hāpur weather 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 Hāpur, which stands 220 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 25 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.