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Barometric pressure in Puerto Ayacucho

1011hPa
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 01:00 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 dotted line is the average over a whole day, so you can see where pressure is heading under the daily up and down.

now30° / 25°31° / 24°28° / 24°30° / 23°33° / 25°28° / 24°33° / 25°32° / 24°32° / 24°31° / 23°33° / 24°30° / 25°30° / 25°30° / 25°Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 30Mon 31Tue 1Wed 2Thu 31005.01007.51010.01012.51015.01017.5
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 28 +1 hPa

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

Light rain32° / 24°6.9 mm

low 1007 · high 1012 hPa

SatAug 29 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light rain32° / 24°11.1 mm

low 1008 · high 1013 hPa

SunAug 30 0 hPa

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

Light rain31° / 23°9.3 mm

low 1009 · high 1014 hPa

MonAug 31 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain33° / 24°8.4 mm

low 1008 · high 1014 hPa

TueSep 1 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Dense drizzle30° / 25°6.9 mm

low 1009 · high 1014 hPa

WedSep 2 0 hPa

Climbs in the morning, then settles back.

Light rain30° / 25°15.6 mm

low 1011 · high 1015 hPa

ThuSep 3 0 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Light rain30° / 25°13.8 mm

low 1012 · high 1014 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 28
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Light drizzle24°0.11012
01:00Light drizzle25°0.11011
02:00Light drizzle25°0.11010
03:00Light drizzle24°0.11010
04:00Light drizzle24°0.11010
05:00Light drizzle24°0.11010
06:00Mainly clear25°1011
07:00Mainly clear25°1011
08:00Mainly clear26°1012
09:00Mainly clear27°1012
10:00Mainly clear29°1012
11:00Mainly clear31°1012
12:00Light drizzle32°0.31011
13:00Light drizzle32°0.31010
14:00Light drizzle32°0.31009
15:00Light rain31°1.81008
16:00Light rain29°1.81008
17:00Light rain28°1.81007
18:00Partly cloudy27°1008
19:00Overcast26°1009
20:00Overcast26°1010
21:00Overcast26°1011
22:00Partly cloudy26°1012
23:00Partly cloudy26°1012

A quiet week. Nothing moves more than 6 hPa in a day.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Puerto Ayacucho 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

Puerto Ayacucho sits 93 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 11 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1000 hPa as of 01:00.

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 Puerto Ayacucho.

Cities nearby

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

Watching the sun as well? See how strong the UV is in Puerto Ayacucho right now, 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 Puerto Ayacucho, which stands 93 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 11 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.