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Barometric pressure in Paragominas

1011hPa
Falling

Day to day, pressure has fallen slowly. It stands 1 hPa lower than it did at this time yesterday. It has levelled off and stays close to where it is now for the week ahead.

Sea level reading, as of 14:00 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.

now32° / 23°33° / 21°33° / 23°33° / 23°33° / 23°33° / 22°33° / 21°33° / 23°33° / 22°34° / 22°32° / 22°32° / 23°33° / 23°16Mon 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.

Partly cloudy33° / 21°

low 1010 · high 1016 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 23°

low 1011 · high 1015 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle33° / 22°0.6 mm

low 1010 · high 1015 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Partly cloudy34° / 22°

low 1009 · high 1014 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle32° / 22°2.4 mm

low 1009 · high 1014 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

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

Overcast32° / 23°

low 1010 · high 1014 hPa

SatAug 29 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 23°1.8 mm

low 1010 · high 1014 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Clear sky25°1014
01:00Clear sky24°1014
02:00Clear sky23°1013
03:00Clear sky23°1013
04:00Clear sky22°1013
05:00Clear sky21°1013
06:00Clear sky21°1014
07:00Mainly clear23°1014
08:00Partly cloudy25°1015
09:00Partly cloudy27°1016
10:00Partly cloudy29°1015
11:00Partly cloudy31°1015
12:00Mainly clear32°1014
13:00Mainly clear33°1013
14:00Mainly clear33°1011
15:00Mainly clear33°1011
16:00Mainly clear32°1010
17:00Mainly clear31°1011
18:00Mainly clear29°1011
19:00Mainly clear28°1012
20:00Mainly clear28°1013
21:00Mainly clear27°1014
22:00Mainly clear26°1014
23:00Clear sky26°1015

A calm stretch: no day this week moves more than 5 hPa.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Paragominas 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

Paragominas sits 124 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 14 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 997 hPa as of 14:00.

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 Paragominas.

Cities nearby

Open one to see its pressure, or search for your own city at the top of the page.

Wondering if this weather is normal? See what the weather in Paragominas has done 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 Paragominas, which stands 124 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 14 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.