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Barometric pressure in Lashio

1010hPa
Rising

Day to day, pressure has risen steadily. Up 2 hPa since this time yesterday. It is levelling off, then starts falling tomorrow morning.

Sea level reading, as of 23:00 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.

now27° / 22°28° / 23°27° / 22°29° / 23°30° / 22°28° / 22°28° / 22°27° / 22°26° / 22°27° / 21°25° / 22°27° / 21°25° / 22°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29100010051010
The forecast runs 6 days ahead.

The week ahead

Each day at a glance: how far pressure moves, and the low and high it reaches.

TodayAug 23 +3 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Light drizzle28° / 22°18.6 mm

low 1006 · high 1010 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

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

Light rain27° / 22°29.4 mm

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light rain26° / 22°19.6 mm

low 1004 · high 1010 hPa

WedAug 26 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle27° / 21°19.1 mm

low 1003 · high 1008 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

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

Dense drizzle25° / 22°16.2 mm

low 1001 · high 1007 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Dense drizzle27° / 21°29.4 mm

low 1001 · high 1007 hPa

SatAug 29 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Dense drizzle25° / 22°21.6 mm

low 1004 · high 1007 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Drizzle24°0.81008
01:00Dense drizzle23°1.11007
02:00Dense drizzle23°1.11007
03:00Dense drizzle22°1.11007
04:00Light rain22°1.71008
05:00Light rain22°1.71009
06:00Light rain23°1.71009
07:00Light drizzle23°0.21009
08:00Light drizzle25°0.21010
09:00Light drizzle26°0.21010
10:00Light drizzle27°0.11009
11:00Light drizzle27°0.11009
12:00Light drizzle28°0.11008
13:00Light drizzle27°0.41008
14:00Light drizzle27°0.41006
15:00Light drizzle26°0.41006
16:00Light drizzle25°0.11006
17:00Light drizzle25°0.11006
18:00Light drizzle24°0.11006
19:00Drizzle24°0.81007
20:00Drizzle23°0.81009
21:00Drizzle23°0.81010
22:00Light rain23°2.31010
23:00Light rain22°2.31010

Biggest change: today, up 3 hPa.

What happens next

The high point comes tomorrow morning, near 1010 hPa; after that it falls.

The daily rhythm

In Lashio 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

Lashio sits 835 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 92 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 918 hPa as of 23:00.

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 Lashio.

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 Lashio 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 Lashio, which stands 835 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 92 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.