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StormRoss Sea low · L-2026-0057

The Ross Sea low is near its strongest and will slowly weaken as it heads southeast

Very deep low near 944 hPa now, about 1,100 km NE of McMurdo Station and filling; all 103 ensemble forecasts show it.

Updated Sat., Sept. 26, 9:58 p.m. UTC · 103 from NOAA, ECMWF and Environment CanadaLow confidence

Very deep low near 944 hPa now, about 1,100 km NE of McMurdo Station and filling; all 103 ensemble forecasts show it.

Quick answers

As of the Sat 26 Sep 12Z model run · updated Sat., Sept. 26, 9:58 p.m. UTC

Where is the Ross Sea low going?
The centre is about 1,150 kilometres northeast of McMurdo Station, moving southeast at about 45 km/h. The most likely path takes it about 750 kilometres east of McMurdo Station by Monday morning.
How sure is the forecast?
Low confidence. All 103 show the storm, and they on where it goes (agreement 0 out of 100).
Do the AI and physics models agree?
Largely, yes. By Monday morning the AI ensembles’ middle track is about 60 kilometres south of the physics ensembles’. Both take it to about 943 at its deepest.
Will the Ross Sea low become a bomb cyclone?
Unlikely. None of the 103 deepen it fast enough to count as a (a pressure fall of roughly 24 in 24 hours, adjusted for latitude).

What we know

Where it is. At 10 p.m. Saturday, the centre was about 1,150 kilometres northeast of McMurdo Station, with a central pressure near 944 .

How sure. All 103 show the storm, and they on where it goes.1

How strong. It is near its strongest now. Forecasts have it filling steadily, to about 951 by Monday. None of them turn it into a rapidly deepening .

What’s uncertain

Later on. The forecasts fan out after Sunday. By Monday morning, the is about 1,200 kilometres across.2

When it arrives

No town we track is within reach of this storm; it stays about 1,150 kilometres northeast of McMurdo Station.

DetailsStrength, sources and the fine print

How strong it gets

Central pressure over time. The line is the middle forecast; the band holds 8 in 10 of them.

(lower is stronger)

Times are shown in

Where the forecasts come from

ModelTracks
NOAA
31 of 3112Z
ECMWF
51 of 5112Z
Environment Canada
21 of 2112Z

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Notes

  1. Forecast tracks from the 12Z model run: GEFS (31), AIFS ENS (51), GEPS (21). A single run is one high-resolution forecast; ensemble forecasts are the same model run many times with small changes.
  2. The cone encloses where the centre is expected to be about two times in three at each hour, from the spread of the forecasts, widened by 20 percent; not yet calibrated against past storms. It shows uncertainty in the track, not the size of the storm.
  3. Shading shows the share of forecasts that bring the centre within 160 kilometres of a spot at any time in the next 3 days. Rain, wind and surge can reach much farther.
  4. Times are in your time zone. Arrival windows run from the earliest to the latest closest approach across forecasts that bring the centre within about 300 miles (500 km).
  5. NOAA/NCEP.
  6. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada.
  7. This service is based on data and products of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Source: www.ecmwf.int. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
  8. Cyclone tracks computed by WeatherNick from the model fields.
  9. Not an official forecast. For warnings and decisions, follow your national weather service.

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