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Barometric pressure in Nyagatare

1015hPa
Rising

Day to day, pressure has risen slowly. It stands 1 hPa higher than it did at this time yesterday. It has flattened out, and the week ahead keeps it near this level.

Sea level reading, as of 18:00 local time. A barometer in Nyagatare itself reads about 872 hPa.

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.

now32° / 20°32° / 19°27° / 20°27° / 20°31° / 18°31° / 18°31° / 19°30° / 18°30° / 17°33° / 19°33° / 19°33° / 20°32° / 20°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29101010151020
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° / 19°2.7 mm

low 1013 · high 1019 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle30° / 18°2.7 mm

low 1013 · high 1019 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle30° / 17°1.2 mm

low 1011 · high 1018 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Overcast33° / 19°

low 1009 · high 1017 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

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

Overcast33° / 19°

low 1009 · high 1017 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

Climbs in the morning, then settles back.

Clear sky33° / 20°

low 1009 · high 1018 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Rises first, then falls away in the morning.

Mainly clear32° / 20°

low 1010 · high 1018 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Mainly clear20°1017
01:00Partly cloudy21°1017
02:00Overcast20°1016
03:00Overcast20°1016
04:00Overcast19°1016
05:00Overcast19°1016
06:00Overcast20°1017
07:00Overcast22°1019
08:00Overcast23°1019
09:00Overcast25°1019
10:00Partly cloudy27°1018
11:00Partly cloudy29°1017
12:00Light drizzle30°0.21016
13:00Light drizzle31°0.21014
14:00Light drizzle31°0.21013
15:00Partly cloudy30°1013
16:00Partly cloudy29°1013
17:00Partly cloudy28°1013
18:00Drizzle25°0.61015
19:00Drizzle23°0.61017
20:00Drizzle21°0.61019
21:00Light drizzle20°0.11019
22:00Light drizzle20°0.11019
23:00Light drizzle20°0.11018

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 9 hPa.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Nyagatare pressure moves on a daily clock: about 7 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

Nyagatare sits 1349 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 143 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 872 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 Nyagatare.

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 Nyagatare, 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 Nyagatare, which stands 1349 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 143 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.