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Barometric pressure in Thị Trấn Thuận Châu

1006hPa
Steady

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has barely moved. It holds near this level for the coming days.

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 dotted line is the average over a whole day, so you can see where pressure is heading under the daily up and down.

now29° / 23°30° / 23°30° / 24°30° / 23°28° / 23°26° / 24°25° / 22°27° / 22°31° / 23°28° / 23°32° / 23°31° / 22°31° / 22°21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 30Mon 31Tue 1Wed 2Thu 3100010051010
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 28 0 hPa

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

Light rain25° / 22°28.7 mm

low 1002 · high 1007 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle27° / 22°14.6 mm

low 1001 · high 1006 hPa

SunAug 30 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle31° / 23°2.6 mm

low 1001 · high 1006 hPa

MonAug 31 +2 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Light drizzle28° / 23°4.8 mm

low 1002 · high 1007 hPa

TueSep 1 +1 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Partly cloudy32° / 23°

low 1002 · high 1008 hPa

WedSep 2 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Clear sky31° / 22°

low 1003 · high 1009 hPa

ThuSep 3 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Clear sky31° / 22°

low 1005 · high 1008 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 28
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Light rain24°2.21006
01:00Light rain23°2.21006
02:00Light rain23°2.01006
03:00Light rain22°2.01005
04:00Light rain22°2.01005
05:00Light rain22°1.61005
06:00Light rain22°1.61006
07:00Light rain22°1.61006
08:00Drizzle23°0.61007
09:00Drizzle23°0.61007
10:00Drizzle23°0.61007
11:00Light rain24°1.51007
12:00Light rain24°1.51006
13:00Light rain24°1.51005
14:00Drizzle25°0.91004
15:00Drizzle25°0.91003
16:00Drizzle25°0.91002
17:00Light drizzle25°0.41002
18:00Light drizzle25°0.41002
19:00Light drizzle25°0.41003
20:00Drizzle24°0.61004
21:00Drizzle24°0.61005
22:00Drizzle24°0.61006
23:00Light rain24°1.51006

A quiet week. Nothing moves more than 6 hPa in a day.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

Thị Trấn Thuận Châu 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

Thị Trấn Thuận Châu sits 610 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 68 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 938 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 Thị Trấn Thuận Châu.

Cities nearby

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

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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 Thị Trấn Thuận Châu, which stands 610 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 68 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.