The 2022 season

Tropical Storm Meari (2022)

Tropical Storm Meari peaked at 35 kt in the Western Pacific between August 8, 2022 and August 16, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 988 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Meari, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2022 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
August 8, 2022 to August 16, 2022
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
988 mb (29.18 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.1
Identifier
WP092022

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 8, 18:0023.9N 148.8E1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 00:0024.1N 146.3E1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0024.6N 144.5E1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0024.9N 142.8E1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0024.7N 141.9E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 10, 00:0026.2N 139.8E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 10, 06:0026.8N 139.0E15 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 10, 12:0027.4N 138.4E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 10, 18:0028.0N 137.7E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 11, 00:0028.3N 136.7E20 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Aug 11, 06:0028.4N 135.9E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Aug 11, 12:0028.7N 135.7E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0029.0N 135.7E35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0030.5N 136.3E35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0030.9N 136.7E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0032.2N 136.7E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0033.0N 136.7E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 00:0033.8N 137.3E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0034.7N 138.3E30 kt996 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 12:0035.7N 140.1E25 kt999 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 18:0036.9N 142.2E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0039.3N 145.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0040.9N 147.0E35 kt994 mbExtratropical
Aug 14, 12:0043.9N 149.7E994 mbExtratropical
Aug 14, 18:0046.8N 151.3E992 mbExtratropical
Aug 15, 00:0049.9N 152.1E988 mbExtratropical
Aug 15, 06:0051.9N 152.6E988 mbExtratropical
Aug 15, 12:0053.5N 153.7E988 mbExtratropical
Aug 15, 18:0055.5N 154.6E988 mbExtratropical
Aug 16, 00:0057.7N 155.2E990 mbExtratropical
Aug 16, 06:0058.9N 156.6E990 mbExtratropical
Aug 16, 12:0059.7N 157.2E992 mbExtratropical
Aug 16, 18:0060.1N 156.0E994 mbExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 2022

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.