The 1966 season

Typhoon Marie (1966)

Typhoon Marie reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between October 29, 1966 and November 5, 1966, with a lowest pressure of 948 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Marie, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1966 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
Western Pacific
Dates
October 29, 1966 to November 5, 1966
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
948 mb (27.99 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 574 km (357 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
15.2
Identifier
WP271966

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 29, 18:0014.5N 167.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0014.8N 167.1E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 06:0015.2N 166.1E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 12:0015.5N 164.7E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 18:0015.6N 162.9E65 kt986 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0016.1N 161.2E75 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 06:0017.0N 159.7E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 12:0018.0N 158.8E75 kt978 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 18:0018.8N 157.9E75 kt976 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 00:0019.8N 156.7E85 kt972 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 06:0020.7N 155.0E90 kt968 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 12:0021.1N 153.1E90 kt966 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 18:0021.8N 151.6E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 00:0022.5N 151.1E100 kt954 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 06:0023.3N 150.9E100 kt949 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 12:0024.1N 151.1E100 kt949 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 18:0025.3N 151.8E100 kt949 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 00:0026.8N 153.3E100 kt948 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 06:0028.0N 156.1E100 kt948 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 12:0029.2N 159.1E80 kt948 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 18:0031.1N 162.5E80 kt950 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 00:0033.8N 166.8E80 kt960 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 06:0037.0N 170.0E60 kt970 mbMixed
Nov 4, 12:0040.0N 175.0E45 kt980 mbMixed
Nov 4, 18:0043.0N 180.0E35 kt986 mbMixed
Nov 5, 00:0050.5N 175.0W30 ktMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 1966

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.