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Barometric pressure in Ribeirão Pires

1020hPa
Steady

Beneath its daily wave, pressure has barely moved. From here it heads up until tomorrow morning.

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.

now29° / 16°29° / 17°29° / 16°30° / 15°23° / 13°19° / 13°20° / 12°15° / 12°17° / 13°20° / 15°26° / 16°30° / 17°32° / 21°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291010101510201025
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

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle20° / 12°0.7 mm

low 1020 · high 1024 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle15° / 12°3.7 mm

low 1022 · high 1025 hPa

TueAug 25 −3 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Light drizzle17° / 13°0.7 mm

low 1019 · high 1023 hPa

WedAug 26 −2 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Light drizzle20° / 15°3.3 mm

low 1016 · high 1020 hPa

ThuAug 27 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Partly cloudy26° / 16°

low 1013 · high 1018 hPa

FriAug 28 −3 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Overcast30° / 17°

low 1010 · high 1015 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

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

Partly cloudy32° / 21°

low 1009 · high 1013 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Partly cloudy13°1022
01:00Partly cloudy12°1022
02:00Mainly clear12°1021
03:00Clear sky12°1021
04:00Mainly clear12°1021
05:00Partly cloudy12°1021
06:00Overcast12°1021
07:00Overcast13°1022
08:00Partly cloudy15°1022
09:00Partly cloudy16°1023
10:00Mainly clear18°1022
11:00Clear sky20°1021
12:00Clear sky20°1021
13:00Mainly clear20°1021
14:00Mainly clear18°1020
15:00Partly cloudy17°1020
16:00Partly cloudy16°1021
17:00Overcast15°1021
18:00Overcast14°1022
19:00Light drizzle14°0.11022
20:00Light drizzle14°0.11023
21:00Light drizzle14°0.11023
22:00Light drizzle14°0.21024
23:00Light drizzle14°0.21024

Of the seven days, Friday moves most: down 3 hPa.

What happens next

Pressure tops out near 1025 hPa tomorrow morning, and falls after that.

The daily rhythm

Ribeirão Pires has a strong daily rhythm: pressure swings about 3 hPa between a regular low and high, at almost the same hours each day. Most of what the graph shows is that daily wave, which is why the change since yesterday says more here than the change over a few hours.

Your own barometer

Ribeirão Pires sits 756 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 86 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 935 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 Ribeirão Pires.

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 Ribeirão Pires 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 Ribeirão Pires, which stands 756 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 86 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.