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Barometric pressure in Yuen Long

1002hPa
Steady

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has barely moved. A fall is beginning, and runs until this 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° / 28°33° / 27°33° / 27°31° / 27°31° / 26°33° / 28°31° / 28°31° / 28°30° / 27°30° / 26°32° / 27°31° / 28°30° / 25°31° / 26°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 30997.51000.01002.51005.0
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

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

Drizzle31° / 28°3.6 mm

low 999 · high 1002 hPa

TueAug 25 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Dense drizzle30° / 27°14.4 mm

low 1001 · high 1004 hPa

WedAug 26 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light rain30° / 26°21.6 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

ThuAug 27 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle32° / 27°2.7 mm

low 1000 · high 1004 hPa

FriAug 28 −1 hPa

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

Dense drizzle31° / 28°4.5 mm

low 999 · high 1002 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Light rain30° / 25°41.1 mm

low 1000 · high 1002 hPa

SunAug 30 +3 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Drizzle31° / 26°12.9 mm

low 1001 · high 1004 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast29°1002
01:00Overcast29°1001
02:00Overcast29°1001
03:00Light drizzle28°0.11000
04:00Light drizzle28°0.11000
05:00Light drizzle28°0.11000
06:00Drizzle28°0.51001
07:00Drizzle28°0.51001
08:00Drizzle28°0.51002
09:00Light drizzle29°0.11002
10:00Light drizzle30°0.11002
11:00Light drizzle31°0.11002
12:00Light drizzle31°0.21001
13:00Light drizzle31°0.21000
14:00Light drizzle31°0.21000
15:00Light drizzle31°0.2999
16:00Light drizzle30°0.2999
17:00Light drizzle30°0.2999
18:00Overcast30°1000
19:00Overcast30°1001
20:00Overcast29°1002
21:00Light drizzle29°0.11002
22:00Light drizzle29°0.11002
23:00Light drizzle29°0.11002

Sunday has the week's biggest move: up 3 hPa.

What happens next

Pressure bottoms out near 999 hPa this afternoon, and rises after that.

The daily rhythm

In Yuen Long 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

Yuen Long 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 Yuen Long.

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 Yuen Long, 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. Yuen Long 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.