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Barometric pressure in Sahāranpur

1004hPa
Rising

Beneath its daily wave, pressure has risen slowly. It is 1 hPa higher than this time yesterday. It is flattening out; a fall begins tomorrow morning.

Sea level reading, as of 22:00 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° / 26°31° / 26°32° / 25°32° / 25°32° / 26°32° / 26°31° / 24°31° / 25°32° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 25°33° / 25°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29995.0997.51000.01002.51005.01007.5
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.

Rain31° / 24°22.5 mm

low 1001 · high 1006 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle31° / 25°4.8 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle32° / 26°3.9 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

WedAug 26 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle32° / 26°2.1 mm

low 999 · high 1005 hPa

ThuAug 27 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle32° / 26°1.2 mm

low 998 · high 1003 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle32° / 25°3.0 mm

low 998 · high 1003 hPa

SatAug 29 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 25°0.9 mm

low 997 · high 1002 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Light rain27°1.61004
01:00Light rain25°1.61004
02:00Light rain24°1.61004
03:00Dense drizzle25°1.11004
04:00Dense drizzle25°1.11004
05:00Dense drizzle25°1.11004
06:00Rain25°4.21004
07:00Rain25°4.21005
08:00Rain25°4.21005
09:00Light drizzle27°0.31006
10:00Light drizzle29°0.31006
11:00Light drizzle30°0.31006
12:00Light drizzle31°0.11005
13:00Light drizzle31°0.11004
14:00Light drizzle31°0.11003
15:00Partly cloudy31°1002
16:00Mainly clear31°1001
17:00Clear sky31°1001
18:00Clear sky30°1002
19:00Clear sky29°1002
20:00Clear sky29°1003
21:00Light drizzle28°0.21004
22:00Light drizzle28°0.21004
23:00Light drizzle27°0.21004

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

What happens next

The high point comes tomorrow morning, near 1005 hPa; after that it falls.

The daily rhythm

Sahāranpur has a strong daily rhythm: pressure swings about 4 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

Sahāranpur sits 281 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 32 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 973 hPa as of 22:00.

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 Sahāranpur.

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 Sahāranpur 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 Sahāranpur, which stands 281 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 32 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.