Hurricane Faith

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Hurricane Faith was the sixth named storm and fifth hurricane of the 1966 Atlantic hurricane season. It is most notable for its long track that took it from the tropics to the Arctic.

Contents

1 Storm history

1.1 Records

2 Impact
3 See also
4 References

Storm history

After forming on August 21, 1966 as a Cape Verde-type hurricane, Faith moved steadily westward, strengthening as it did so. It curved slowly north as it neared the Leeward Islands and peaked as a Category 3 storm east of the Bahamas as the system headed north-northeast. The hurricane soon dropped back down to a Category 2 storm, and continued on a steady northeast track. [1966 Monthly Weather Review]

When the storm passed Newfoundland, not only was it still a tropical system, it was still a Category 2 hurricane. Faith struck the Faroe Islands on September 5 with sustained winds still over 100 mph and only then did the storm cease to be a tropical system. The new extratropical storm went on to strike Norway with winds as high as 60 mph. Faith weakened to an extratropical depression over Scandinavia and was tracked over Russia, later degenerating into an extratropical low and swerving north. [1966 Monthly Weather Review]

Traveling from the Leeward Islands to Newfoundland then Scandinavia, the remnant low pressure area tracked as far north as Franz Josef Land, 300 miles from the North Pole.

Records

Faith traveled farther and to the most northerly latitude of any Atlantic hurricane. Faith was also one of the longest duration tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean on record, lasting 16 days total and spending 13 as a hurricane.

Impact

Four people died as a result of the storm; none of them were on land. One man was pitched overboard when his boat was battered by heavy seas. Two others drowned while trying to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat. Another man was missing and presumed dead after heavy seas forced him and his shipmates to abandon their boat off the north coast of Denmark. Property damage was minimal, mainly because the areas impacted by Faith were sparsely populated. [Canadian Hurricane Centre Report]

References

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Hurricane Faith

Storm history

Records

Impact

See also

References