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Barometric pressure in San Salvador de Jujuy

1020hPa
Falling

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has been falling slowly. It stands 1 hPa lower than it did at this time yesterday. It continues to fall until Thursday afternoon.

Sea level reading, as of 13:00 local time. A barometer in San Salvador de Jujuy itself reads about 883 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.

now14° / 8°13° / 7°16° / 5°21° / 2°24° / 5°19° / 7°18° / 5°16° / 9°22° / 7°26° / 8°33° / 12°26° / 13°21° / 12°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29100010101020
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 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle18° / 5°

low 1017 · high 1023 hPa

MonAug 24 −3 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Light drizzle16° / 9°0.6 mm

low 1017 · high 1022 hPa

TueAug 25 −6 hPa

Falls quickly, most of it in the afternoon.

Overcast22° / 7°

low 1009 · high 1018 hPa

WedAug 26 −9 hPa

Falls very rapidly, most of it in the afternoon.

Clear sky26° / 8°

low 1000 · high 1012 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

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

Mainly clear33° / 12°

low 996 · high 1003 hPa

FriAug 28 +5 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Light drizzle26° / 13°0.9 mm

low 1000 · high 1008 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle21° / 12°3.7 mm

low 1004 · high 1011 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Clear sky9°1022
01:00Clear sky8°1022
02:00Clear sky7°1021
03:00Clear sky6°1021
04:00Clear sky6°1021
05:00Mainly clear5°1021
06:00Partly cloudy5°1021
07:00Partly cloudy6°1022
08:00Overcast7°1023
09:00Overcast8°1023
10:00Overcast10°1023
11:00Overcast13°1022
12:00Overcast15°1022
13:00Overcast16°1020
14:00Overcast17°1018
15:00Overcast18°1017
16:00Overcast18°1017
17:00Overcast17°1018
18:00Overcast16°1018
19:00Light drizzle15°0.11019
20:00Light drizzle14°0.11020
21:00Light drizzle13°0.11020
22:00Overcast12°1021
23:00Overcast11°1021

Biggest change: Wednesday, down 9 hPa.

What happens next

Pressure bottoms out near 996 hPa on Thursday afternoon, and rises after that.

The daily rhythm

In San Salvador de Jujuy pressure moves on a daily clock: about 6 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

San Salvador de Jujuy sits 1238 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 137 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 883 hPa as of 13:00.

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 San Salvador de Jujuy.

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 San Salvador de Jujuy 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 San Salvador de Jujuy, which stands 1238 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 137 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.