The 2026 season

Tropical Storm Iggy (2026)

Tropical Storm Iggy peaked at 45 kt in the South Indian between December 31, 2025 and January 3, 2026, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Iggy, 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
December 31, 2025 to January 3, 2026
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 425 km (264 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Identifier
SH112026

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Dec 31, 18:0011.2S 106.3E35 kt1000 mbNot reported
Jan 1, 00:0012.4S 107.8E35 kt1000 mbNot reported
Jan 1, 06:0013.1S 108.1E45 kt998 mbNot reported
Jan 1, 12:0013.8S 108.4E45 kt998 mbNot reported
Jan 1, 18:0014.7S 109.2E45 kt998 mbNot reported
Jan 2, 00:0015.3S 109.5E39 kt1000 mbNot reported
Jan 2, 06:0016.1S 109.4E39 kt1000 mbNot reported
Jan 2, 12:0016.7S 108.9E35 kt1003 mbNot reported
Jan 2, 18:0016.8S 108.2E29 kt1005 mbNot reported
Jan 3, 00:0016.8S 107.1E25 kt1006 mbNot reported
Jan 3, 06:0016.6S 105.9E25 kt1007 mbNot reported
Jan 3, 12:0016.7S 104.6E19 kt1007 mbNot reported
Jan 3, 18:0016.8S 103.3E25 kt1007 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.