Harvey Dropped Heavy Rain In Some Areas

TRMM rain-map of HarveyTropical storm Harvey is dissipating inland over southern Mexico while hurricane Irene is drenching the island of Puerto Rico. Harvey's track is shown on the rainfall analysis above with appropriate tropical cyclone symbols in white.

The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center provides quantitative rainfall estimates over the global tropics. An analysis of TMPA rainfall totals for the period August 15-22, 2011 is shown for the area transited by tropical storm Harvey. The highest rainfall total associated with Harvey was an area of greater than 200mm (~7.9 inches) off the northern coast of Honduras. Harvey also dropped rainfall amounts greater than 175mm (~6.9 inches) in southern Mexico inland from the bay of Campeche. Some additional life threatening flooding may occur with heavy rainfall form the Harvey's remnants.