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Barometric pressure in Taunggyi

1012hPa
Rising

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has risen slowly. A rise of 2 hPa since this time yesterday. It has levelled off and stays close to where it is now for the week ahead.

Sea level reading, as of 23:00 local time. A barometer in Taunggyi itself reads about 861 hPa.

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.

now23° / 19°24° / 19°24° / 19°25° / 18°27° / 18°26° / 19°23° / 18°24° / 18°25° / 19°24° / 19°23° / 19°24° / 19°23° / 19°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29100010051010
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.

Dense drizzle23° / 18°8.7 mm

low 1007 · high 1012 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle24° / 18°3.6 mm

low 1007 · high 1012 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle25° / 19°3.0 mm

low 1007 · high 1011 hPa

WedAug 26 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light rain24° / 19°8.0 mm

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

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

Dense drizzle23° / 19°6.7 mm

low 1004 · high 1008 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Dense drizzle24° / 19°8.9 mm

low 1003 · high 1008 hPa

SatAug 29 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain23° / 19°8.5 mm

low 1005 · high 1008 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast19°1010
01:00Overcast19°1010
02:00Overcast19°1010
03:00Overcast18°1009
04:00Overcast18°1010
05:00Overcast19°1010
06:00Overcast19°1010
07:00Light drizzle20°0.21010
08:00Light drizzle21°0.21011
09:00Light drizzle22°0.21011
10:00Dense drizzle23°1.21011
11:00Dense drizzle23°1.21011
12:00Dense drizzle23°1.21010
13:00Light drizzle23°0.21009
14:00Light drizzle23°0.21008
15:00Light drizzle23°0.21007
16:00Dense drizzle22°1.21008
17:00Dense drizzle21°1.21008
18:00Dense drizzle20°1.21009
19:00Light drizzle20°0.11010
20:00Light drizzle20°0.11011
21:00Light drizzle19°0.11012
22:00Overcast19°1012
23:00Overcast19°1012

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

What happens next

Nothing in the week ahead moves pressure far from where it is now.

The daily rhythm

In Taunggyi 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

Taunggyi sits 1405 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 151 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 861 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 Taunggyi.

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 Taunggyi 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 Taunggyi, which stands 1405 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 151 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.