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Barometric pressure in Trincomalee

1012hPa
Steady

Day to day, pressure has barely moved. It holds near this level for the coming days.

Sea level reading, as of 09:00 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.

now36/2835° / 27°36° / 27°35° / 27°35° / 27°35° / 27°35° / 27°36° / 27°36° / 26°36° / 26°36° / 26°37° / 26°37° / 26°36° / 25°21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 30Mon 31Tue 1Wed 2Thu 3100410061008101010121014
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 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Overcast36° / 27°

low 1007 · high 1012 hPa

SatAug 29 +1 hPa

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

Overcast36° / 26°

low 1007 · high 1012 hPa

SunAug 30 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Overcast36° / 26°

low 1008 · high 1012 hPa

MonAug 31 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle36° / 26°

low 1007 · high 1012 hPa

TueSep 1 +1 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Overcast37° / 26°

low 1007 · high 1012 hPa

WedSep 2 0 hPa

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

Mainly clear37° / 26°

low 1007 · high 1012 hPa

ThuSep 3 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Clear sky36° / 25°

low 1007 · high 1011 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 28
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Partly cloudy28°1011
01:00Overcast28°1010
02:00Overcast27°1009
03:00Partly cloudy27°1009
04:00Mainly clear27°1009
05:00Clear sky27°1009
06:00Mainly clear28°1010
07:00Partly cloudy29°1011
08:00Overcast30°1012
09:00Overcast32°1012
10:00Partly cloudy34°1011
11:00Partly cloudy35°1011
12:00Partly cloudy36°1010
13:00Overcast36°1008
14:00Overcast36°1008
15:00Overcast35°1007
16:00Overcast33°1007
17:00Overcast32°1008
18:00Overcast31°1009
19:00Overcast30°1010
20:00Overcast29°1011
21:00Overcast28°1011
22:00Overcast27°1012
23:00Overcast27°1011

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 5 hPa.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Trincomalee 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

Trincomalee is at sea level, so a barometer there reads about the same as the sea-level figure.

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 Trincomalee.

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 Trincomalee 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. Weather services correct readings to what they would be at sea level, so that cities can be compared. Trincomalee is at sea level, so there is almost nothing to correct and the two figures agree.

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.