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Barometric pressure in Wanning

1003hPa
Steady

Day to day, pressure has barely moved. From here it heads down until tomorrow afternoon.

Sea level reading, as of 00:00 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.

now34° / 26°33° / 25°27° / 25°29° / 26°31° / 27°33° / 27°34° / 27°31° / 26°32° / 26°33° / 28°33° / 27°35° / 27°34° / 27°30° / 27°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 30995.0997.51000.01002.51005.0
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 24 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle31° / 26°6.0 mm

low 997 · high 1003 hPa

TueAug 25 +1 hPa

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

Light drizzle32° / 26°6.0 mm

low 997 · high 1002 hPa

WedAug 26 +2 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Light drizzle33° / 28°0.9 mm

low 999 · high 1004 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle33° / 27°1.8 mm

low 1000 · high 1004 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Dense drizzle35° / 27°4.5 mm

low 1000 · high 1004 hPa

SatAug 29 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Drizzle34° / 27°3.0 mm

low 1000 · high 1004 hPa

SunAug 30 +1 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Light drizzle30° / 27°3.0 mm

low 1001 · high 1003 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast28°1003
01:00Overcast28°1002
02:00Overcast28°1001
03:00Light drizzle27°0.11001
04:00Light drizzle27°0.11000
05:00Light drizzle27°0.11000
06:00Light drizzle27°0.11000
07:00Light drizzle27°0.11000
08:00Light drizzle28°0.11001
09:00Light drizzle29°0.21001
10:00Light drizzle30°0.21001
11:00Light drizzle31°0.21001
12:00Drizzle31°0.61000
13:00Drizzle31°0.61000
14:00Drizzle31°0.6999
15:00Drizzle31°0.6998
16:00Drizzle30°0.6998
17:00Drizzle29°0.6997
18:00Light drizzle29°0.1998
19:00Light drizzle28°0.1998
20:00Light drizzle28°0.1999
21:00Light drizzle27°0.31000
22:00Light drizzle27°0.31001
23:00Light drizzle26°0.31001

Wednesday has the week's biggest move: up 2 hPa.

What happens next

The lowest reading, about 997 hPa, comes tomorrow afternoon; it climbs from there.

The daily rhythm

Wanning has a strong daily rhythm: pressure swings about 3 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

Wanning sits 13 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 2 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1001 hPa as of 00:00.

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 Wanning.

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 Wanning, 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 Wanning, which stands 13 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 2 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.