My Barometer Rules

Short Guide
with rules for thunderstorms, Strong Winds and Gales from the Secret Law of Storms

Last 3 hours
▲10 mb Gale Warning (34 – 47 knots)
▲6 mb Strong Wind Warning (26 – 33)
▲1.1-2.7 poorer weather to come ( > 1015 mb)
▼1.1-2.7 rain & wind ( < 1009 mb)
▼4 mb storm ( < 1009 mb) rain & wind (1009 - 1023 mb))
▼6 mb storm with a Strong Wind Warning ( <1009 mb)
firestorm conditions if fire exists &
▼7 mb
( < 990 mb) & ( > 40 oC) sustained
▼10 mb storm with a Gale Warning ( <1009 mb)
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Last 3 hours ▼4 mb Last 12 hours ▼8 mb (Pressure < 1005 mb)
Anytime in Storm Season (Tropics)
steady Tropical Cyclone Early Warning if continuously steady for 6 hours
▼5 mb tropical revolving storm (for fall below tropical seasonal average)

More Barometer Rules

Last 3 hours ▼ < 1009 mb 1009 – 1018 mb 1019 – 1023 mb > 1023 mb
no change, except no change except fair weather except
poorer weather to poorer weather to poorer weather to
rising clearing and colder
come for 1.1 – 2.7 come for rise of come for rise of
mb and > 1015 mb 1.1 mb – 2.7 mb 1.1 mb – 2.7 mb
fair with slight fair with no marked
steady clearing and colder no change temperature temperature
change change
no change and
fair and slowly
1.1 – 2.7 mb rain & wind no change rain within 24
rising temperature
hours
rain & may get
4 mb storm rain & wind increasing wind warming trend
speed and
temperature
10 mb storm and Gale

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