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Barometric pressure in Ilagan

1008hPa
Steady

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has barely moved. A climb is beginning, and runs until tomorrow evening.

Sea level reading, as of 03:00 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.

now30/2732° / 26°30° / 26°33° / 26°33° / 26°33° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 26°33° / 27°32° / 26°31° / 26°30° / 25°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 301002.51005.01007.51010.01012.5
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 24 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle32° / 26°3.3 mm

low 1006 · high 1009 hPa

TueAug 25 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light rain32° / 26°8.7 mm

low 1007 · high 1010 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle32° / 26°2.1 mm

low 1006 · high 1009 hPa

ThuAug 27 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 27°5.1 mm

low 1004 · high 1008 hPa

FriAug 28 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle32° / 26°4.5 mm

low 1006 · high 1009 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle31° / 26°5.7 mm

low 1006 · high 1009 hPa

SunAug 30 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light rain30° / 25°11.7 mm

low 1006 · high 1010 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast27°1009
01:00Overcast27°1009
02:00Overcast27°1008
03:00Overcast26°1008
04:00Overcast26°1008
05:00Overcast26°1008
06:00Overcast26°1008
07:00Overcast27°1009
08:00Overcast28°1009
09:00Overcast29°1009
10:00Overcast30°1008
11:00Overcast31°1008
12:00Light drizzle32°0.31007
13:00Light drizzle32°0.31007
14:00Light drizzle31°0.31006
15:00Light drizzle31°0.41006
16:00Light drizzle30°0.41006
17:00Light drizzle29°0.41007
18:00Light drizzle29°0.41007
19:00Light drizzle28°0.41008
20:00Light drizzle27°0.41009
21:00Overcast27°1009
22:00Overcast27°1009
23:00Overcast27°1009

A quiet week. Nothing moves more than 4 hPa in a day.

What happens next

The highest reading, about 1010 hPa, comes tomorrow evening; it falls from there.

The daily rhythm

In Ilagan pressure moves on a daily clock: about 3 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

Ilagan sits 33 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 4 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1004 hPa as of 03:00.

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 Ilagan.

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 Ilagan 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 Ilagan, which stands 33 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 4 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.