Cyclone Rae (2025)
Cyclone Rae reached Category 2 in the South Pacific between February 22, 2025 and February 25, 2025, with a lowest pressure of 961 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Cyclone Rae, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- South Pacific
- Dates
- February 22, 2025 to February 25, 2025
- Peak strength
- Category 2, 89 kt (102 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 961 mb (28.38 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 105 km (65 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 4.8
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 160 nmi (296 km, 184 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 6 nmi (11 km, 7 mi)
- Overall size
- 190 nmi (352 km, 219 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Fastest the center moved
- 15 kt (17 mph)
- Identifier
- SH192025
Deaths and damage
No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 12:00 | 13.5S 177.7W | 35 kt | 996 mb | Not reported |
| Feb 22, 18:00 | 14.4S 177.6W | 35 kt | 997 mb | Not reported |
| Feb 23, 00:00 | 14.7S 178.5W | 45 kt | 993 mb | Not reported |
| Feb 23, 06:00 | 15.3S 178.8W | 51 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 23, 12:00 | 15.9S 179.1W | 54 kt | 983 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 23, 18:00 | 16.6S 179.0W | 60 kt | 988 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 24, 00:00 | 17.9S 179.4W | 60 kt | 988 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 24, 06:00 | 19.1S 179.3W | 64 kt | 978 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 24, 12:00 | 20.3S 179.0W | 77 kt | 970 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 24, 18:00 | 21.5S 178.4W | 89 kt | 961 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 25, 00:00 | 22.8S 177.7W | 84 kt | 968 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 25, 06:00 | 23.6S 178.5W | 60 kt | 988 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 25, 12:00 | 24.5S 177.7W | 51 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
Other South Pacific storms of 2025
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2025
- Tropical Storm PitaSouth Pacific · 2025
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2025
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2025
- Cyclone AlfredSouth Pacific · 2025
- Cyclone SeruSouth Pacific · 2025
- Tropical Depression RaeSouth Pacific · 2025
- Tropical Storm TamSouth Pacific · 2025
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2025
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 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.