TRMM Satellite's View of Tropical Cyclone 01A's Rainfall (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

TRMM Satellite's View of Tropical Cyclone 01A's Rainfall

Caption

TRMM passed above the first tropical cyclone of 2012 as it was forming in the Arabian Sea on October 2012 at 11:13 a.m. EDT. TRMM saw that rain at the surface was falling at a rate of up to 41 mm/hour (~1.6 inches) and thunderstorms within were reaching heights of over 16 km (~9.9 miles).

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SSAI/NASA, Hal Pierce

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