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Barometric pressure in Mahesāna

1006hPa
Rising

Day to day, pressure has risen slowly. Up 1 hPa since this time yesterday. It has levelled off and stays close to where it is now for the week ahead.

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.

now31° / 26°32° / 26°33° / 26°33° / 26°31° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 26°31° / 25°31° / 25°32° / 26°33° / 26°31° / 26°32° / 25°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291000.01002.51005.01007.5
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 24 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle31° / 25°0.9 mm

low 1003 · high 1007 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Overcast31° / 25°

low 1003 · high 1007 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Overcast32° / 26°

low 1002 · high 1007 hPa

ThuAug 27 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 26°

low 1001 · high 1006 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

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

Light drizzle31° / 26°

low 1002 · high 1005 hPa

SatAug 29 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle32° / 25°

low 1002 · high 1006 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast27°1006
01:00Overcast27°1006
02:00Overcast27°1005
03:00Partly cloudy26°1005
04:00Mainly clear26°1005
05:00Mainly clear25°1005
06:00Mainly clear26°1006
07:00Partly cloudy26°1006
08:00Overcast27°1007
09:00Light drizzle27°0.21007
10:00Light drizzle28°0.21007
11:00Light drizzle29°0.21007
12:00Light drizzle30°0.11006
13:00Light drizzle30°0.11005
14:00Light drizzle31°0.11005
15:00Partly cloudy31°1004
16:00Partly cloudy31°1003
17:00Partly cloudy31°1003
18:00Partly cloudy30°1004
19:00Mainly clear29°1004
20:00Clear sky29°1005
21:00Clear sky28°1006
22:00Clear sky28°1006
23:00Clear sky27°1006

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 5 hPa.

What happens next

Nothing in the week ahead moves pressure far from where it is now.

The daily rhythm

In Mahesāna 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

Mahesāna sits 89 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 10 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 996 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 Mahesāna.

Cities nearby

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

Out in the sun today? Check the UV level in Mahesāna, 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 Mahesāna, which stands 89 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 10 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.