Tropical Storm Pita (2025)

Tropical Storm Pita peaked at 39 kt in the South Pacific between January 10, 2025 and January 12, 2025, with a lowest pressure of 993 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Pita, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2025 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin: South Pacific
Dates: January 10, 2025 to January 12, 2025
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 39 kt (45 mph)
Lowest pressure: 993 mb (29.32 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 444 km (276 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 0.9
Identifier: SH082025

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Jan 10, 00:00	17.1S 174.9W	30 kt	998 mb	Not reported
Jan 10, 06:00	18.0S 173.2W	30 kt	997 mb	Not reported
Jan 10, 12:00	18.4S 171.2W	30 kt	996 mb	Not reported
Jan 10, 18:00	19.3S 169.1W	35 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 11, 00:00	19.9S 167.6W	39 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 11, 06:00	21.4S 164.2W	39 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 11, 12:00	21.9S 161.5W	35 kt	993 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 11, 18:00	21.9S 160.6W	39 kt	996 mb	Not reported
Jan 12, 00:00	21.9S 158.8W	35 kt	997 mb	Not reported
Jan 12, 06:00	22.4S 157.5W	29 kt	997 mb	Not reported
Jan 12, 12:00	22.6S 156.4W	35 kt	998 mb	Not reported

Other South Pacific storms of 2025

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.