TRMM Satellite Sees Phet's Heavy Rainfall (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

TRMM Satellite Sees Phet's Heavy Rainfall

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The TRMM satellite traveled almost directly above a powerful tropical cyclone called Phet in the Arabian Sea on June 2 at 0140 UTC. This image showed that numerous powerful thunderstorms were imbedded in Phet's well defined eye wall producing very heavy rainfall of over 50 mm/hr (~2 inches (red)).Forecast positions as of June 2, are shown in this image.

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NASA/SSAI, Hal Pierce

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