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Barometric pressure in Tengyue

1012hPa
Rising

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has risen slowly. Up 1 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 01:00 local time. A barometer in Tengyue itself reads about 838 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.

now24° / 18°25° / 18°24° / 18°28° / 18°27° / 18°26° / 19°24° / 19°23° / 18°23° / 18°24° / 18°27° / 18°27° / 18°24° / 18°26° / 18°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 30100010051010
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 24 −1 hPa

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

Dense drizzle23° / 18°9.6 mm

low 1006 · high 1012 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Dense drizzle23° / 18°8.7 mm

low 1005 · high 1011 hPa

WedAug 26 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle24° / 18°9.6 mm

low 1004 · high 1010 hPa

ThuAug 27 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle27° / 18°6.3 mm

low 1002 · high 1009 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

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

Light rain27° / 18°16.5 mm

low 1003 · high 1008 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain24° / 18°19.8 mm

low 1005 · high 1008 hPa

SunAug 30 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain26° / 18°20.4 mm

low 1005 · high 1009 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Light drizzle19°0.41012
01:00Light drizzle19°0.41012
02:00Light drizzle19°0.41011
03:00Light drizzle19°0.11011
04:00Light drizzle18°0.11011
05:00Light drizzle18°0.11010
06:00Overcast18°1011
07:00Overcast18°1011
08:00Overcast19°1011
09:00Overcast20°1011
10:00Overcast21°1011
11:00Overcast22°1011
12:00Dense drizzle22°1.01010
13:00Dense drizzle22°1.01009
14:00Dense drizzle22°1.01008
15:00Dense drizzle23°1.01007
16:00Dense drizzle23°1.01007
17:00Dense drizzle23°1.01006
18:00Drizzle22°0.51007
19:00Drizzle21°0.51007
20:00Drizzle20°0.51008
21:00Light drizzle20°0.21009
22:00Light drizzle20°0.21010
23:00Light drizzle19°0.21011

A quiet week. Nothing moves more than 7 hPa in a day.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Tengyue pressure moves on a daily clock: about 5 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

Tengyue sits 1638 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 174 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 838 hPa as of 01:00.

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 Tengyue.

Cities nearby

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

Curious what you are breathing? See the air quality in Tengyue today, 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 Tengyue, which stands 1638 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 174 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.