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Barometric pressure in Suriāpet

1007hPa
Steady

Day to day, pressure has barely moved. It stays close to where it is now through the week ahead.

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.

now34° / 26°33° / 28°30° / 27°32° / 25°33° / 27°32° / 26°30° / 26°28° / 25°32° / 25°33° / 24°33° / 27°32° / 26°32° / 26°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291000.01002.51005.01007.51010.0
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 0 hPa

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

Dense drizzle30° / 26°11.4 mm

low 1004 · high 1007 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain28° / 25°16.5 mm

low 1004 · high 1007 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle32° / 25°3.0 mm

low 1002 · high 1007 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle33° / 24°4.2 mm

low 1003 · high 1007 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle33° / 27°1.2 mm

low 1002 · high 1007 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle32° / 26°1.5 mm

low 1003 · high 1007 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle32° / 26°0.9 mm

low 1003 · high 1007 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Dense drizzle27°1.21007
01:00Dense drizzle26°1.21006
02:00Dense drizzle26°1.21005
03:00Overcast26°1005
04:00Overcast27°1005
05:00Overcast27°1005
06:00Overcast28°1006
07:00Overcast28°1006
08:00Overcast28°1007
09:00Overcast29°1007
10:00Overcast30°1007
11:00Overcast30°1007
12:00Drizzle29°0.71007
13:00Drizzle28°0.71006
14:00Drizzle27°0.71005
15:00Dense drizzle27°1.21005
16:00Dense drizzle28°1.21004
17:00Dense drizzle28°1.21005
18:00Light drizzle28°0.11005
19:00Light drizzle27°0.11006
20:00Light drizzle27°0.11007
21:00Drizzle27°0.61007
22:00Drizzle26°0.61007
23:00Drizzle26°0.61007

A quiet week. Nothing moves more than 5 hPa in a day.

What happens next

The forecast shows no big move in either direction this week.

The daily rhythm

Suriāpet has a strong daily rhythm: pressure swings about 4 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

Suriāpet sits 178 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 20 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 987 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 Suriāpet.

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 Suriāpet, 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 Suriāpet, which stands 178 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 20 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.