Does barometric pressure change rapidly or severely if you live at a high altitude?

Question

Does barometric pressure change rapidly or severely if you live at a high altitude?

Answer 1

The actual change of pressure has nothing to do with altitude. the atmospheric pressure drops about 1 mb per 8 meter at sea level, then slower with altitude. When you live much above the sea level, it is best to adjust the barometer to the altitude.

The pressure you read where you live if called QFE. The pressure corrected for the sea level is called QNH and the pressure corrected from a weekly or monthly variation is called QFF. It is the latter that is used to draw the isobars on a weather map.

How fast the pressure sinks or rises tells directly how much wind there will be. An old seafarer rule of thumb is that if the barometer falls 10 mb in 8 hours than a gale force wind can be expected.

Answer 2

It depends upon the temperature variation over that place.At ground level, the pressure variation depends upon the temperature variation during the course of the day or year.An inland station will have more temperature variation during the course of the day(the difference between the maximum and minimum temperaure for a particular day)  than a  coastal station resulting in more variations in pressure also.Similarly, if such a temperature variation is more over the place which is situated at an altitude,the pressure variation also may be more.Again,this temperature variation in turn depends upon latitude, prevailing winds and nature of soil at that level and ice or snow covering(which reflects the sunlight thereby reducing the temperature value).

So,if temperature variation is more at that laltitude,the variation will also be more and vice versa.

Answer 3

Only if there's a Storm approaching or something... It's really NO different than at lower Altitudes...-You're just starting off at a Lower Atmospheric Pressure- that's all. The actual Changes are about the Same...

Answer 4

I would say no because a barometer measures the pressure from the atmosphere above you pressing down.

The higher up you are, the less atmosphere there is to press down on you, so it wouldn't change rapidly.

just a guess