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Barometric pressure in Nepalgunj

1004hPa
Rising

Day to day, pressure has risen slowly. A rise of 1 hPa since this time yesterday. It is flattening out; a fall begins 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.

now29° / 26°31° / 26°31° / 27°32° / 27°32° / 27°30° / 26°32° / 27°31° / 27°31° / 26°33° / 26°31° / 26°31° / 26°30° / 26°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29995.0997.51000.01002.51005.0
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 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Drizzle32° / 27°4.5 mm

low 1002 · high 1005 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle31° / 27°6.9 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

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

Dense drizzle31° / 26°5.7 mm

low 1000 · high 1005 hPa

WedAug 26 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light rain33° / 26°15.3 mm

low 999 · high 1004 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

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

Rain31° / 26°12.3 mm

low 998 · high 1003 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle31° / 26°4.2 mm

low 999 · high 1002 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain30° / 26°11.7 mm

low 998 · high 1002 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Light drizzle28°0.31003
01:00Light drizzle27°0.31003
02:00Light drizzle27°0.31003
03:00Light drizzle27°0.11002
04:00Light drizzle27°0.11002
05:00Light drizzle28°0.11002
06:00Partly cloudy29°1003
07:00Partly cloudy29°1003
08:00Partly cloudy30°1004
09:00Drizzle31°0.61004
10:00Drizzle31°0.61005
11:00Drizzle32°0.61005
12:00Light drizzle31°0.31004
13:00Light drizzle31°0.31003
14:00Light drizzle30°0.31002
15:00Light drizzle30°0.21002
16:00Light drizzle30°0.21002
17:00Light drizzle29°0.21002
18:00Overcast29°1002
19:00Overcast28°1003
20:00Overcast28°1003
21:00Overcast28°1004
22:00Overcast27°1004
23:00Overcast27°1004

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 6 hPa.

What happens next

The highest reading, about 1005 hPa, comes tomorrow morning; it falls from there.

The daily rhythm

In Nepalgunj 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

Nepalgunj sits 153 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 17 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 987 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 Nepalgunj.

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 Nepalgunj 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 Nepalgunj, which stands 153 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 17 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.