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Is the weather station Barometric Pressure actually surface pressure or is it adjusted to a certain temperature or altitude?

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Is the weather station Barometric Pressure actually surface pressure or is it adjusted to a certain temperature or altitude?

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The weather station pressure is corrected for elevation, it is standard meteorological practice to report pressure as sea-level pressure rather than surface pressure. To translate the sea-level pressure readings from the weather station to surface pressure you can subtract 3.9836 kPa.