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Barometric pressure in Huangshi

1003hPa
Steady

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has barely moved. From here it heads up until tomorrow morning.

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° / 26°33° / 27°33° / 27°34° / 28°33° / 28°33° / 28°33° / 28°34° / 27°34° / 27°32° / 28°35° / 27°34° / 27°34° / 28°29° / 27°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 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Drizzle34° / 27°5.1 mm

low 1001 · high 1004 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

Climbs in the morning, then settles back.

Clear sky34° / 27°

low 1003 · high 1006 hPa

WedAug 26 +1 hPa

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

Light drizzle32° / 28°

low 1002 · high 1005 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Clear sky35° / 27°

low 1001 · high 1006 hPa

FriAug 28 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle34° / 27°

low 1000 · high 1004 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle34° / 28°1.2 mm

low 1000 · high 1003 hPa

SunAug 30 +4 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Rain29° / 27°36.3 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Drizzle27°0.61003
01:00Drizzle27°0.61003
02:00Drizzle27°0.61003
03:00Drizzle27°0.61003
04:00Drizzle27°0.61003
05:00Drizzle27°0.61002
06:00Overcast27°1003
07:00Partly cloudy28°1003
08:00Partly cloudy28°1004
09:00Mainly clear29°1004
10:00Mainly clear31°1004
11:00Mainly clear32°1004
12:00Mainly clear33°1003
13:00Clear sky34°1002
14:00Clear sky34°1001
15:00Drizzle33°0.51001
16:00Drizzle32°0.51002
17:00Drizzle31°0.51002
18:00Mainly clear30°1002
19:00Clear sky30°1003
20:00Clear sky29°1003
21:00Clear sky29°1004
22:00Clear sky29°1004
23:00Clear sky29°1004

Of the seven days, Sunday moves most: up 4 hPa.

What happens next

The highest reading, about 1006 hPa, comes tomorrow morning; it falls from there.

The daily rhythm

Huangshi has a strong daily rhythm: pressure swings about 2 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

Huangshi sits 20 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 2 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1001 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 Huangshi.

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 Huangshi, 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 Huangshi, which stands 20 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 2 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.