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Barometric pressure in Nkpor

1013hPa
Steady

Beneath its daily wave, pressure has barely moved. Nothing in the week ahead takes it far from where it is now.

Sea level reading, as of 18:00 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.

now28° / 24°26° / 23°29° / 23°30° / 24°29° / 24°29° / 23°27° / 24°31° / 23°30° / 24°30° / 23°28° / 24°28° / 24°28° / 23°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291007.51010.01012.51015.01017.5
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 rain27° / 24°20.6 mm

low 1013 · high 1017 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Drizzle31° / 23°4.1 mm

low 1010 · high 1015 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle30° / 24°10.1 mm

low 1009 · high 1014 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Drizzle30° / 23°9.0 mm

low 1009 · high 1015 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain28° / 24°15.5 mm

low 1010 · high 1016 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Rain28° / 24°29.2 mm

low 1011 · high 1015 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Light rain28° / 23°11.7 mm

low 1012 · high 1014 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Light rain24°1.61016
01:00Light rain24°1.61015
02:00Light rain24°1.91015
03:00Light rain24°1.91015
04:00Light rain24°1.91015
05:00Drizzle24°0.71014
06:00Drizzle24°0.71014
07:00Drizzle24°0.71014
08:00Dense drizzle24°1.21015
09:00Dense drizzle24°1.21016
10:00Dense drizzle24°1.21017
11:00Light drizzle25°0.21016
12:00Light drizzle26°0.21015
13:00Light drizzle27°0.21015
14:00Light rain27°1.41014
15:00Light rain26°1.41013
16:00Light rain26°1.41013
17:00Light drizzle25°0.41013
18:00Light drizzle25°0.41013
19:00Light drizzle25°0.41013
20:00Overcast25°1014
21:00Overcast25°1014
22:00Partly cloudy24°1015
23:00Partly cloudy24°1015

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

What happens next

The forecast shows no big move in either direction this week.

The daily rhythm

In Nkpor 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

Nkpor sits 113 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 13 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1000 hPa as of 18:00.

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 Nkpor.

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 Nkpor, 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 Nkpor, which stands 113 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 13 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.