How it works
Pressuring.me looks at the air-pressure forecast for the place you choose and points out the days when pressure is expected to fall or rise sharply. Many weather-sensitive people say these are the days they feel worst.
1. You pick a place
Start typing a city, town or postcode and pick it from the suggestions. We never ask for your GPS position. Your choice is remembered only on your own device, so next time the page opens straight on your forecast. Press Change to pick another place.
2. You pick what to track
- Pressure drops – days when pressure falls quickly. This usually happens when a low-pressure system or a weather front is coming: clouds, wind, rain, often a change in temperature.
- Pressure rises – days when pressure climbs quickly. This usually happens when a strong high-pressure system moves in, often after a front has passed.
- All changes – both of the above. Useful if any sudden swing affects you.
3. We flag the big swings
For every hour of the next 7 days we compare the forecast pressure with the pressure 24 hours earlier. If the difference reaches 5 hPa or more, the day is marked as a big drop or a big rise. Each swing is counted once, on the day where most of it happens, so one weather front does not show up twice.
Why 5 hPa? Everyday changes usually stay within a few hectopascals. Swings of 5–10 hPa in a day typically come with passing fronts or strong highs – the weather changes people most often notice. It is a practical threshold, not a medical one: you may react to smaller changes, or not at all.
4. Reading the forecast
- The chart shows pressure hour by hour. Shaded columns are the days that match what you track (blue for drops, red for rises).
- Each day shows the pressure range for that day and the biggest 24-hour change.
- Days 4–7 are marked with a star (*). Forecasts become less certain the further ahead they go, so treat them as a heads-up and check again closer to the day.
Where the data comes from
The forecast comes from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway), which publishes free weather forecasts for any point on Earth. Outside the Nordic countries it is based on the global model of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The forecast is refreshed several times a day; we keep a copy for up to about 30 minutes so the service stays fast and fair to the data provider.
All pressure values are mean sea-level pressure – the number weather services and weather maps use. A barometer at home may show a lower number if you live high above the sea, but the changes are the same, and changes are what we track.
Days are counted in the approximate local time of the place you chose.