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Barometric pressure in Shāhzādpur

1004hPa
Steady

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has barely moved. It turns downward on Tuesday morning.

Sea level reading, as of 23:00 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.

now30° / 26°32° / 26°34° / 27°34° / 28°33° / 29°34° / 28°34° / 27°32° / 27°33° / 26°33° / 26°34° / 26°33° / 26°33° / 26°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29995.0997.51000.01002.51005.01007.5
The forecast runs 6 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

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Light drizzle34° / 27°7.5 mm

low 1000 · high 1004 hPa

MonAug 24 +1 hPa

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

Light drizzle32° / 27°5.1 mm

low 1000 · high 1005 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Dense drizzle33° / 26°7.6 mm

low 1000 · high 1005 hPa

WedAug 26 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 26°6.5 mm

low 999 · high 1005 hPa

ThuAug 27 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle34° / 26°5.3 mm

low 998 · high 1003 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain33° / 26°10.8 mm

low 997 · high 1002 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 26°11.1 mm

low 998 · high 1002 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Light drizzle28°0.31003
01:00Light rain28°1.61003
02:00Light rain27°1.61003
03:00Light rain27°1.61002
04:00Drizzle27°0.51002
05:00Drizzle27°0.51002
06:00Drizzle28°0.51002
07:00Overcast29°1003
08:00Overcast30°1003
09:00Partly cloudy31°1004
10:00Partly cloudy32°1004
11:00Partly cloudy33°1004
12:00Partly cloudy34°1003
13:00Mainly clear34°1002
14:00Clear sky34°1001
15:00Clear sky34°1000
16:00Light drizzle33°0.31000
17:00Light drizzle32°0.31000
18:00Light drizzle31°0.31001
19:00Mainly clear30°1002
20:00Mainly clear30°1003
21:00Mainly clear29°1004
22:00Mainly clear29°1004
23:00Mainly clear28°1004

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 6 hPa.

What happens next

The highest reading, about 1005 hPa, comes on Tuesday morning; it falls from there.

The daily rhythm

In Shāhzādpur 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

Shāhzādpur sits 15 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 2 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1002 hPa as of 23:00.

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 Shāhzādpur.

Cities nearby

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

Out in the sun today? Check the UV level in Shāhzādpur, 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 Shāhzādpur, which stands 15 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 2 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.