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Barometric pressure in Muzaffarabad

1007hPa
Rising

Day to day, pressure has risen slowly. It stands 2 hPa higher than it did at this time yesterday. The rise has eased: it holds near this level, then starts falling on Tuesday morning.

Sea level reading, as of 21:00 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.

now33° / 24°33° / 24°33° / 24°31° / 24°33° / 23°32° / 24°33° / 22°33° / 21°34° / 21°34° / 21°34° / 22°34° / 23°32° / 24°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291000.01002.51005.01007.51010.0
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 23 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 22°1.8 mm

low 1006 · high 1008 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle33° / 21°

low 1004 · high 1009 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle34° / 21°0.9 mm

low 1004 · high 1008 hPa

WedAug 26 −3 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle34° / 21°

low 1003 · high 1008 hPa

ThuAug 27 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle34° / 22°0.9 mm

low 1001 · high 1006 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle34° / 23°0.6 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle32° / 24°2.7 mm

low 1003 · high 1005 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Mainly clear24°1006
01:00Partly cloudy24°1006
02:00Partly cloudy23°1006
03:00Light drizzle22°0.11006
04:00Light drizzle22°0.11007
05:00Light drizzle22°0.11007
06:00Clear sky24°1008
07:00Clear sky25°1008
08:00Clear sky27°1008
09:00Light drizzle29°0.11008
10:00Light drizzle31°0.11008
11:00Light drizzle33°0.11007
12:00Light drizzle33°0.31007
13:00Light drizzle33°0.31007
14:00Light drizzle33°0.31007
15:00Light drizzle32°0.11007
16:00Light drizzle31°0.11006
17:00Light drizzle30°0.11006
18:00Clear sky29°1006
19:00Clear sky27°1007
20:00Clear sky26°1007
21:00Clear sky25°1007
22:00Clear sky24°1008
23:00Clear sky23°1008

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

What happens next

The highest reading, about 1008 hPa, comes on Tuesday morning; it falls from there.

The daily rhythm

In Muzaffarabad 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

Muzaffarabad sits 740 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 81 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 926 hPa as of 21:00.

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 Muzaffarabad.

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 Muzaffarabad, 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 Muzaffarabad, which stands 740 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 81 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.