Amanda

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is off to a busy start. By the first week of June, Tropical Storm Arthur had already brushed North Carolina , Tropical Storm Bertha had drenched South Carolina , and the third named storm of the year— Cristobal—was dropping torrential rain on the Yucatán Peninsula. The storm first developed in the Pacific in late May as Tropical Storm Amanda, spinning off the southern end of a seasonal low-pressure pattern called the Central American Gyre . After making landfall in Guatemala and causing deadly floods in El Salvador , Amanda weakened and became less organized

Once powerful hurricane Amanda was weakening to tropical depression intensity when the TRMM satellite passed above on May 29, 2014 at 1038 UTC. A rainfall analysis derived from TRMM data is shown overlaid on a GOES-15 enhanced infrared image. TRMM's Microwave Imager (TMI) found rain falling at a rate of slightly over 47 mm/hr (about 1.9 inches) in storms located between Amanda's center and Mexico's coast. Amanda's locations and intensities are shown in red.

The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific hurricane 2014 season, called Amanda, reached wind speeds estimated at 135 kts (about 190 mph) on May 25, 2014. This made it a category four on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale. Fortunately the powerful hurricane was over open waters well to the southwest of Mexico's coast when the maximum intensity was reached. The images above show data collected when the TRMM satellite passed overhead on Saturday May 24, 2014 at 2150 UTC. Rainfall data from TRMM's Microwave Imager (TMI) and Precipitation Radar (PR) instruments are shown overlaid on a GOES-15