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Barometric pressure in Ségou

1011hPa
Steady

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has barely moved. From here it rises until tomorrow morning.

Sea level reading, as of 15:00 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.

now31° / 23°32° / 25°35° / 24°29° / 24°33° / 25°31° / 26°31° / 25°32° / 24°34° / 25°32° / 26°33° / 24°30° / 23°30° / 22°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291007.51010.01012.51015.01017.5
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 23 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Drizzle31° / 25°6.8 mm

low 1010 · high 1015 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

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

Light rain32° / 24°6.1 mm

low 1011 · high 1016 hPa

TueAug 25 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle34° / 25°

low 1009 · high 1014 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle32° / 26°3.6 mm

low 1009 · high 1014 hPa

ThuAug 27 +2 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Overcast33° / 24°4.0 mm

low 1008 · high 1013 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle30° / 23°5.3 mm

low 1010 · high 1015 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle30° / 22°6.3 mm

low 1011 · high 1015 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Mainly clear27°1014
01:00Mainly clear27°1013
02:00Mainly clear26°1013
03:00Mainly clear26°1012
04:00Partly cloudy26°1012
05:00Partly cloudy25°1013
06:00Overcast25°1013
07:00Overcast26°1014
08:00Overcast28°1015
09:00Overcast29°1015
10:00Drizzle29°0.81015
11:00Drizzle28°0.81015
12:00Drizzle28°0.81015
13:00Light drizzle29°0.11014
14:00Light drizzle31°0.11012
15:00Light drizzle31°0.11011
16:00Light drizzle31°0.11010
17:00Light drizzle31°0.11010
18:00Light drizzle30°0.11010
19:00Mainly clear29°1011
20:00Mainly clear29°1012
21:00Mainly clear28°1013
22:00Light rain27°1.91014
23:00Light rain25°1.91015

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 5 hPa.

What happens next

The high point comes tomorrow morning, near 1016 hPa; after that it falls.

The daily rhythm

In Ségou 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

Ségou sits 292 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 33 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 978 hPa as of 15:00.

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 Ségou.

Cities nearby

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

Wondering how clean the air is? See today's air quality in Ségou, on our sister site airindex.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 Ségou, which stands 292 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 33 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.