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StormBellingshausen Sea low · L-2026-0064

The Bellingshausen Sea low is near its strongest and will slowly weaken as it heads northeast

Very deep low near 962 hPa now, over the Weddell Sea and filling; nearly all forecasts show it.

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

Very deep low near 962 hPa now, over the Weddell Sea and filling; nearly all 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 Bellingshausen Sea low going?
The centre is over the Weddell Sea, moving northeast at about 55 km/h. The most likely path takes it about 1,400 kilometres southeast of South Georgia by Monday evening.
How sure is the forecast?
Low confidence. 99 of 103 show the storm, and they on where it goes (agreement 20 out of 100).
Do the AI and physics models agree?
Largely, yes. By Monday evening the AI ensembles’ middle track is about 140 kilometres west of the physics ensembles’. Both take it to about 958 at its deepest.
Will the Bellingshausen 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 over the Weddell Sea, with a central pressure near 962 .

How sure. 99 of 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 972 by Monday. None of them turn it into a rapidly deepening .

What’s uncertain

Later on. The forecasts fan out after Sunday. By Monday evening, the is about 1,050 kilometres across.2

When it arrives

No town we track is within reach of this storm; it stays over the Weddell Sea.

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
27 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 6 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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