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Barometric pressure in Sete Lagoas

1017hPa
Rising

Day to day, pressure has been rising slowly. A rise of 2 hPa since this time yesterday. There is more to come: it climbs until tomorrow morning.

Sea level reading, as of 13:00 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.

now27° / 17°28° / 15°30° / 15°31° / 16°33° / 17°32° / 20°29° / 18°29° / 18°29° / 18°30° / 19°25° / 18°29° / 17°31° / 19°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291010101510201025
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.

Mainly clear29° / 18°

low 1015 · high 1021 hPa

MonAug 24 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle29° / 18°1.8 mm

low 1016 · high 1021 hPa

TueAug 25 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Overcast29° / 18°

low 1015 · high 1020 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

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

Drizzle30° / 19°3.2 mm

low 1012 · high 1017 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Dense drizzle25° / 18°10.3 mm

low 1014 · high 1020 hPa

FriAug 28 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Overcast29° / 17°

low 1013 · high 1018 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Clear sky31° / 19°

low 1013 · high 1017 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Clear sky20°1019
01:00Clear sky19°1019
02:00Clear sky18°1018
03:00Mainly clear18°1018
04:00Mainly clear18°1018
05:00Mainly clear18°1018
06:00Mainly clear18°1019
07:00Mainly clear19°1019
08:00Clear sky21°1020
09:00Clear sky23°1021
10:00Clear sky24°1020
11:00Clear sky26°1019
12:00Clear sky28°1018
13:00Clear sky29°1017
14:00Clear sky29°1016
15:00Mainly clear29°1015
16:00Mainly clear29°1016
17:00Mainly clear27°1016
18:00Mainly clear26°1017
19:00Mainly clear24°1018
20:00Mainly clear23°1019
21:00Mainly clear21°1019
22:00Mainly clear21°1019
23:00Mainly clear21°1019

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

What happens next

Pressure tops out near 1021 hPa tomorrow morning, and falls after that.

The daily rhythm

Sete Lagoas has a strong daily rhythm: pressure swings about 5 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

Sete Lagoas sits 767 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 84 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 933 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 Sete Lagoas.

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 Sete Lagoas 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 Sete Lagoas, which stands 767 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 84 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.