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Barometric pressure in Maoming

1002hPa
Steady

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has barely moved. A fall is beginning, and runs until this afternoon.

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.

now34° / 27°29° / 26°33° / 26°29° / 26°30° / 26°31° / 25°33° / 27°32° / 26°30° / 26°28° / 26°30° / 25°31° / 26°29° / 25°28° / 24°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 30995.0997.51000.01002.51005.0
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 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle32° / 26°2.4 mm

low 997 · high 1002 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

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

Light rain30° / 26°11.1 mm

low 997 · high 1000 hPa

WedAug 26 +3 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Light rain28° / 26°30.6 mm

low 998 · high 1003 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

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

Light rain30° / 25°13.5 mm

low 1000 · high 1003 hPa

FriAug 28 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Dense drizzle31° / 26°5.4 mm

low 1000 · high 1003 hPa

SatAug 29 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Rain29° / 25°46.2 mm

low 999 · high 1003 hPa

SunAug 30 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Rain28° / 24°48.3 mm

low 1001 · high 1002 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Partly cloudy28°1002
01:00Overcast27°1001
02:00Overcast27°1001
03:00Overcast27°1000
04:00Partly cloudy26°1000
05:00Partly cloudy26°1000
06:00Mainly clear27°1000
07:00Mainly clear28°1001
08:00Mainly clear29°1001
09:00Light drizzle30°0.11001
10:00Light drizzle31°0.11001
11:00Light drizzle32°0.11001
12:00Drizzle32°0.61000
13:00Drizzle32°0.61000
14:00Drizzle32°0.6999
15:00Light drizzle32°0.1998
16:00Light drizzle31°0.1997
17:00Light drizzle31°0.1997
18:00Partly cloudy30°998
19:00Overcast29°999
20:00Overcast28°1000
21:00Overcast28°1000
22:00Overcast28°1001
23:00Overcast28°1001

Of the seven days, Wednesday moves most: up 3 hPa.

What happens next

The low point comes this afternoon, near 997 hPa; after that it rises.

The daily rhythm

In Maoming 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

Maoming sits 14 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 Maoming.

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 Maoming, 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 Maoming, which stands 14 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.