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Barometric pressure in Tallahassee

1016hPa
Steady

Beneath its daily wave, pressure has barely moved. A fall is beginning, and runs until this evening.

Sea level reading, as of 12:00 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.

now36° / 26°36° / 25°34° / 24°34° / 23°33° / 23°31° / 23°36° / 23°35° / 24°31° / 23°33° / 23°29° / 23°30° / 23°32° / 22°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291010.01012.51015.01017.51020.0
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 evening, and comes back by the end of the day.

Light drizzle36° / 23°

low 1013 · high 1016 hPa

MonAug 24 +1 hPa

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

Light drizzle35° / 24°1.5 mm

low 1014 · high 1016 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Rain31° / 23°14.1 mm

low 1016 · high 1017 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

Climbs in the morning, then settles back.

Drizzle33° / 23°2.1 mm

low 1014 · high 1018 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

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

Drizzle29° / 23°6.6 mm

low 1014 · high 1017 hPa

FriAug 28 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light rain30° / 23°7.8 mm

low 1015 · high 1018 hPa

SatAug 29 +1 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Light drizzle32° / 22°2.4 mm

low 1017 · high 1020 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Partly cloudy24°1015
01:00Partly cloudy24°1015
02:00Partly cloudy24°1015
03:00Partly cloudy24°1014
04:00Overcast24°1014
05:00Overcast24°1014
06:00Overcast24°1014
07:00Overcast23°1014
08:00Overcast24°1015
09:00Partly cloudy25°1015
10:00Mainly clear28°1016
11:00Clear sky30°1016
12:00Clear sky32°1016
13:00Mainly clear33°1016
14:00Mainly clear35°1015
15:00Mainly clear35°1015
16:00Mainly clear36°1014
17:00Mainly clear35°1013
18:00Light drizzle34°0.11013
19:00Light drizzle31°0.11013
20:00Light drizzle29°0.11013
21:00Clear sky28°1014
22:00Clear sky27°1015
23:00Clear sky26°1016

A calm stretch: no day this week moves more than 4 hPa.

What happens next

Pressure bottoms out near 1013 hPa this evening, and rises after that.

The daily rhythm

In Tallahassee pressure moves on a daily clock: about 3 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

Tallahassee sits 66 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 8 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1009 hPa as of 12:00.

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 Tallahassee.

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 Tallahassee, 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 Tallahassee, which stands 66 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 8 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.