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Barometric pressure in Matagalpa

1015hPa
Steady

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has barely moved. It holds near this level for the coming days.

Sea level reading, as of 10:00 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.

now30/2327° / 22°28° / 23°25° / 22°31° / 22°32° / 22°28° / 23°31° / 21°28° / 23°29° / 22°29° / 23°27° / 23°30° / 23°31° / 22°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29100810101012101410161018
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 23 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle31° / 21°1.2 mm

low 1012 · high 1016 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle28° / 23°2.4 mm

low 1012 · high 1015 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle29° / 22°3.2 mm

low 1011 · high 1016 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle29° / 23°4.6 mm

low 1011 · high 1015 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle27° / 23°3.0 mm

low 1011 · high 1014 hPa

FriAug 28 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle30° / 23°2.4 mm

low 1012 · high 1016 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Light drizzle31° / 22°1.2 mm

low 1013 · high 1015 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Light drizzle23°0.31016
01:00Light drizzle23°0.11015
02:00Light drizzle23°0.11015
03:00Light drizzle22°0.11014
04:00Overcast22°1014
05:00Overcast21°1014
06:00Partly cloudy21°1015
07:00Partly cloudy22°1015
08:00Mainly clear24°1015
09:00Mainly clear26°1015
10:00Mainly clear27°1015
11:00Mainly clear29°1015
12:00Partly cloudy30°1014
13:00Light drizzle31°0.11013
14:00Light drizzle31°0.11012
15:00Light drizzle30°0.11012
16:00Light drizzle28°0.11012
17:00Light drizzle26°0.11013
18:00Light drizzle24°0.11013
19:00Partly cloudy24°1014
20:00Partly cloudy24°1015
21:00Overcast23°1015
22:00Overcast23°1015
23:00Overcast23°1015

A calm stretch: no day this week moves more than 4 hPa.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

Matagalpa has a strong daily rhythm: pressure swings about 3 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

Matagalpa sits 681 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 75 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 940 hPa as of 10:00.

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 Matagalpa.

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 Matagalpa 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 Matagalpa, which stands 681 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 75 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.