The image on the left used data captured by the TRMM satellite on July 22, 2013 at 1703 UTC when it passed above a tropical wave in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. The tropical wave had moved from Africa into the eastern Atlantic earlier in the day. The TRMM satellite view on the right shows that the tropical wave's organization had greatly improved when data was again collected on July 23, 2013 at 0253 UTC. Analyses of rainfall from TRMM's Microwave Imager (TMI) and Precipitation Radar (PR) are shown overlaid on Visible and InfraRed Scanner (VIRS) data. A combination visible and infrared VIRS

The TRMM satellite had another excellent view of tropical storm Cimaron near the coast of China on July 18, 2013 at 1804 UTC. This TRMM pass showed that Cimaron still contained some powerful thunderstorms. Some of these storms were found by TRMM's Precipitation Radar (PR) instrument to be dropping rain at a rate of over 141mm/hr (~5.6 inches). Some of this heavy rainfall was returning values of over 54dBZ to the satellite. Tropical storm Cimaron dissipated quickly after coming ashore but produced heavy rainfall that caused flooding in China's Fujian Province. This 3-D view from TRMM's

The image on the left used data captured by the TRMM satellite when it passed above tropical storm Cimaron on July 18, 2013 at 1132 UTC (~7:32 PM Local) just before it hit southeastern China. Rainfall was measured by TRMM's Microwave Imager (TMI) and Precipitation Radar (PR) instruments to be falling at a rate of over 183mm/hr (~7.2 inches) in a small area near Cimaron's center of circulation. TRMM PR found some radar reflectivity values greater than 55dBZ in these heavy rainshowers. Cimaron's track took it to the south of Taiwan yesterday. The rainfall anomaly analysis on the right was made

TRMM satellite again flew above weakening typhoon Soulik on July 11, 2013 at 2119 UTC. Data from TRMM's Microwave Imager (TMI) and Precipitation Radar (PR) instruments show that Soulik had weakened considerably. The eye diameter was shown to be much greater than when TRMM passed over super typhoon Soulik about 7 hours earlier. This TRMM Precipitation Radar 3-D view (from the northwest) shows typhoon Soulik east of Taiwan. The structure of Soulik's large eye is clearly shown by this TRMM PR slice through the weakening typhoon. Soulik is predicted by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) to be

Typhoon Soulik became the first super typhoon of the year when the Joint Typhoon Warning Center estimated that it's sustained winds had increased to 125 knots (~144 mph), which is equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane on the US Saffir-Simpson scale, at 00 UTC on the 10th of July. Soulik began as a tropical depression on the 8th (local time) about 120 miles (~195 km) east of the Northern Mariana Islands and quickly became a typhoon 24 hours later after moving westward into the Philippine Sea where it continued to intensify. TRMM captured this latest image of Soulik in the central Philippine Sea