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Barometric pressure in Wugang

1005hPa
Steady

Day to day, pressure has barely moved. Nothing in the week ahead takes it far from where it is now.

Sea level reading, as of 01:00 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.

now31° / 23°32° / 24°31° / 25°32° / 25°32° / 25°32° / 25°32° / 25°29° / 24°28° / 24°29° / 24°32° / 25°33° / 24°28° / 25°30° / 24°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.

Light rain29° / 24°24.0 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

TueAug 25 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain28° / 24°18.3 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Drizzle29° / 24°11.1 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle32° / 25°2.4 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

FriAug 28 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 24°6.0 mm

low 999 · high 1005 hPa

SatAug 29 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Rain28° / 25°50.1 mm

low 999 · high 1003 hPa

SunAug 30 +4 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Drizzle30° / 24°15.0 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Drizzle25°0.71005
01:00Drizzle25°0.71005
02:00Drizzle25°0.71004
03:00Light drizzle24°0.41004
04:00Light drizzle24°0.41004
05:00Light drizzle24°0.41004
06:00Light rain24°2.41004
07:00Light rain24°2.41005
08:00Light rain24°2.41005
09:00Light drizzle25°0.41005
10:00Light drizzle27°0.41005
11:00Light drizzle28°0.41005
12:00Drizzle28°0.71004
13:00Drizzle29°0.71003
14:00Drizzle28°0.71002
15:00Light rain28°1.71001
16:00Light rain27°1.71001
17:00Light rain26°1.71001
18:00Dense drizzle25°1.11002
19:00Dense drizzle25°1.11003
20:00Dense drizzle25°1.11003
21:00Drizzle24°0.61004
22:00Drizzle24°0.61004
23:00Drizzle24°0.61004

Of the seven days, Sunday moves most: up 4 hPa.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Wugang pressure moves on a daily clock: about 3 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

Wugang sits 332 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 37 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 967 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 Wugang.

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 Wugang 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 Wugang, which stands 332 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 37 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.