TD11 Upgraded To Tropical Storm Jerry
At 1500 UTC (11:00 AM EDT) the National Hurricane Center (NHC) upgraded TD11 to tropical storm Jerry. Tropical Depression ELEVEN (TD11) developed in the central Atlantic Ocean on Saturday September 28, 2013. Southwesterly wind shear reduced TD11's strengthening until this morning. TD11 was having strong bursts of convection when the TRMM satellite flew over earlier at 0929 UTC (~ 6:29 AM Local Time). The image on the left shows a rainfall analysis that uses TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR) data from that orbit. It shows that rain was falling at a rate of over 150 mm/hr from some powerful