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Barometric pressure in Santo Domingo de los Colorados

1011hPa
Falling

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has fallen slowly. It is 2 hPa lower than this time yesterday. It has flattened out, and the week ahead keeps it near this level.

Sea level reading, as of 11:00 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.

now26° / 21°28° / 21°27° / 21°26° / 21°28° / 21°27° / 21°28° / 20°27° / 20°27° / 21°26° / 21°27° / 21°27° / 21°27° / 21°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291005.01007.51010.01012.51015.0
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 rain28° / 20°13.7 mm

low 1008 · high 1013 hPa

MonAug 24 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain27° / 20°14.4 mm

low 1008 · high 1013 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Rain27° / 21°23.9 mm

low 1009 · high 1013 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain26° / 21°16.2 mm

low 1008 · high 1012 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain27° / 21°21.5 mm

low 1007 · high 1012 hPa

FriAug 28 +2 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Rain27° / 21°31.8 mm

low 1009 · high 1013 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Dense drizzle27° / 21°10.2 mm

low 1011 · high 1013 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast22°1013
01:00Partly cloudy22°1013
02:00Overcast21°1012
03:00Overcast21°1011
04:00Overcast21°1010
05:00Overcast20°1011
06:00Overcast20°1011
07:00Overcast21°1012
08:00Overcast23°1012
09:00Partly cloudy25°1012
10:00Partly cloudy27°1012
11:00Light drizzle28°0.41011
12:00Light drizzle28°0.41010
13:00Light drizzle28°0.41009
14:00Light rain27°1.31009
15:00Light rain26°1.31008
16:00Light rain25°1.31008
17:00Light rain24°1.61009
18:00Light rain23°1.61010
19:00Light rain23°1.61011
20:00Dense drizzle22°1.01011
21:00Dense drizzle22°1.01012
22:00Dense drizzle22°1.01012
23:00Drizzle22°0.81012

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

What happens next

Nothing in the week ahead moves pressure far from where it is now.

The daily rhythm

In Santo Domingo de los Colorados 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

Santo Domingo de los Colorados sits 537 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 60 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 952 hPa as of 11:00.

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 Santo Domingo de los Colorados.

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 Santo Domingo de los Colorados 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 Santo Domingo de los Colorados, which stands 537 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 60 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.