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Barometric pressure in Sennar

1011hPa
Falling

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has fallen steadily. It stands 3 hPa lower than it did at this time yesterday. The fall is coming to an end: from here it climbs until tomorrow morning.

Sea level reading, as of 19:00 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.

now38° / 25°38° / 26°38° / 28°38° / 27°39° / 25°32° / 23°36° / 25°39° / 27°41° / 27°42° / 28°40° / 28°41° / 28°39° / 28°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291000100510101015
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 −3 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Overcast36° / 25°

low 1009 · high 1015 hPa

MonAug 24 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Overcast39° / 27°

low 1007 · high 1013 hPa

TueAug 25 −4 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Clear sky41° / 27°

low 1004 · high 1012 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

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

Clear sky42° / 28°

low 1003 · high 1010 hPa

ThuAug 27 +3 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Light drizzle40° / 28°1.8 mm

low 1005 · high 1011 hPa

FriAug 28 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle41° / 28°0.9 mm

low 1004 · high 1010 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle39° / 28°0.6 mm

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast27°1014
01:00Partly cloudy26°1014
02:00Partly cloudy25°1014
03:00Mainly clear25°1013
04:00Clear sky25°1013
05:00Clear sky25°1014
06:00Clear sky26°1014
07:00Mainly clear27°1015
08:00Partly cloudy28°1015
09:00Partly cloudy29°1015
10:00Overcast30°1014
11:00Overcast31°1014
12:00Partly cloudy33°1013
13:00Mainly clear34°1011
14:00Clear sky35°1010
15:00Clear sky36°1010
16:00Clear sky35°1009
17:00Mainly clear35°1009
18:00Partly cloudy34°1009
19:00Overcast33°1011
20:00Overcast32°1012
21:00Overcast31°1012
22:00Partly cloudy30°1012
23:00Partly cloudy29°1012

Tuesday has the week's biggest move: down 4 hPa.

What happens next

The highest reading, about 1013 hPa, comes tomorrow morning; it falls from there.

The daily rhythm

In Sennar 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

Sennar sits 423 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 46 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 964 hPa as of 19:00.

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 Sennar.

Cities nearby

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

Wondering if this weather is normal? See what the weather in Sennar has done 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 Sennar, which stands 423 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 46 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.