Tropical cylone Jack had weakened to a tropical depression when the TRMM satellite passed above on April 22, 2014 at 1120 UTC capturing data used in the images above. The approximate location of JACK's center is shown as a red circle. Almost all rainfall near the the tropical cyclone's center had ceased but TRMM PR found that Jack was producing rain at a rate of over 130mm/hr (about 5.1 inches) in outer bands.

On April 21, 2014 at 2219 UTC the TRMM flew over stormy weather within a tropical disturbance near the Philippines. Precipitation from this tropical low adds to above normal rainfall for the Philippines during the past 30 days. Heavy rainfall with the slow moving remnants of tropical depression Peipah caused flooding in the Philippines earlier this month. TRMM's Precipitation Radar data were used to make a 3-D vertical slice through the tallest thunderstorm towers in this area of stormy weather. This slice shows that some storms were returning radar reflectivity values of greater than 52dBZ

After coming ashore this past Friday tropical cyclone ITA dropped heavy rainfall over the weekend that caused flooding in many areas of northeastern Australia's state of Queensland. IDA has now moved back into the Coral Sea. The analysis above shows a TRMM-based near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) made at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. This analysis used TMPA precipitation data from April 1-14, 2014 during the period when ITA formed in the Coral Sea and moved along northeastern Australia's coast. IDA's locations at 0600 UTC are shown overlaid in white. The

The Global Precipitation Measurement mission's Core Observatory is performing normally. Calibration of the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) and GPM Microwave Imager (GMI) continued.

As predicted, powerful tropical cyclone ITA hit the Queensland coast of northeastern Australia late Friday (local time). At that point ITA was a category four on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane intensity scale with winds estimated at over 120 kts (about 138 mph) . This intensity was down slightly from ITA's estimated peak sustained wind speed of 135kts (about 155 mph) when the dangerous tropical cyclone was approaching Australia. The TRMM satellite passed almost directly above as tropical cyclone ITA was approaching the Queensland coast on April 11, 2014 at 0523 UTC. At the time of this TRMM view