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Barometric pressure in Silchar

1007hPa
Rising

Day to day, pressure has risen slowly. It is 2 hPa higher than this time yesterday. It is flattening out; a fall begins tomorrow evening.

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.

now33° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 26°33° / 26°34° / 26°34° / 26°33° / 26°33° / 25°32° / 25°32° / 25°34° / 25°33° / 25°31° / 25°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 2999510001005
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 +2 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Rain33° / 26°27.0 mm

low 1001 · high 1007 hPa

MonAug 24 +1 hPa

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

Light rain33° / 25°10.8 mm

low 1002 · high 1008 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle32° / 25°7.5 mm

low 1002 · high 1007 hPa

WedAug 26 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Rain32° / 25°25.5 mm

low 1000 · high 1006 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

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

Rain34° / 25°17.7 mm

low 998 · high 1004 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Rain33° / 25°27.6 mm

low 997 · high 1004 hPa

SatAug 29 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Dense drizzle31° / 25°16.5 mm

low 1000 · high 1004 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Light rain27°1.91005
01:00Light rain26°1.91004
02:00Light rain26°1.91004
03:00Light drizzle26°0.31004
04:00Light drizzle26°0.31004
05:00Light drizzle27°0.31004
06:00Partly cloudy27°1005
07:00Mainly clear29°1005
08:00Mainly clear30°1005
09:00Light drizzle31°0.11005
10:00Light drizzle32°0.11005
11:00Light drizzle33°0.11004
12:00Mainly clear33°1003
13:00Mainly clear33°1002
14:00Clear sky33°1001
15:00Light drizzle33°0.21001
16:00Light drizzle32°0.21001
17:00Light drizzle31°0.21002
18:00Rain30°4.61003
19:00Rain28°4.61005
20:00Rain27°4.61007
21:00Light rain27°1.91007
22:00Light rain26°1.91007
23:00Light rain26°1.91007

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 7 hPa.

What happens next

The highest reading, about 1008 hPa, comes tomorrow evening; it falls from there.

The daily rhythm

Silchar 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

Silchar sits 27 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 3 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1004 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 Silchar.

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 Silchar 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 Silchar, which stands 27 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 3 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.