The 2026 season

Tropical Storm Blossom (2026)

Tropical Storm Blossom peaked at 35 kt in the South Indian between September 9, 2025 and September 13, 2025, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Blossom, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2026 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 Indian
Dates
September 9, 2025 to September 13, 2025
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1279 km (795 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Identifier
SH032026

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 9, 06:009.1S 69.3E35 kt1006 mbNot reported
Sep 9, 12:009.7S 68.4E35 kt1005 mbNot reported
Sep 9, 18:0010.3S 67.2E35 kt1006 mbNot reported
Sep 10, 00:0010.5S 66.1E35 kt1006 mbNot reported
Sep 10, 06:0010.5S 65.4E35 kt1004 mbNot reported
Sep 10, 12:0010.5S 65.0E35 kt1004 mbNot reported
Sep 10, 18:0010.2S 64.7E35 kt1006 mbNot reported
Sep 11, 00:0010.1S 64.6E35 kt1006 mbNot reported
Sep 11, 06:009.9S 63.9E35 kt1005 mbNot reported
Sep 11, 12:009.2S 63.2E35 kt1004 mbNot reported
Sep 11, 18:009.0S 62.8E35 kt1006 mbNot reported
Sep 12, 00:008.5S 62.0E29 kt1006 mbNot reported
Sep 12, 06:008.2S 61.5E29 kt1006 mbNot reported
Sep 12, 12:007.8S 60.7E25 kt1006 mbNot reported
Sep 12, 18:007.6S 60.2E25 kt1006 mbNot reported
Sep 13, 00:007.5S 60.5E25 kt1008 mbNot reported

Other South Indian storms of 2026

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.