Honduras

GPM Sees Towering Thunderstorms In Intensifying Tropical Storm Earl

Tropical storm Earl has been intensifying as it moves through the Caribbean Sea. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) now predicts that Earl will be a hurricane before it hits Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula tomorrow afternoon. Earl is predicted by NHC to remain in a light to moderate vertical wind shear environment over very warm sea surface temperatures until landfall. The GPM core observatory satellite passed over intensifying tropical storm Earl in the Caribbean Sea northeast of Honduras on August 3, 2016 at 0356 UTC ( August 2, 2016 11:56 PM EDT). GPM's Microwave Imager (GMI) and Dual-Frequency

TRMM Sees Tropical Storm Rina Forming

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) upgraded an area of disturbed weather in the Caribbean to tropical depression eighteen and then to tropical storm Rina on 23 October 2011. The TRMM satellite flew over the forming tropical cyclone on 23 October 2011 at 1728 UTC (1:28 PM EDT). Data from TRMM's Microwave Imager (TMI) and Precipitation Radar (PR) showed that the future storm already was well organized and had a large area of heavy rainfall extending toward the northeast from eastern Honduras.