Tropical Cyclones over Australia

TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA), data were used in the analysis above to show rainfall contributed by tropical cyclones that have affected Australia in 2011. The tracks of tropical cyclones are shown with thin black lines. The largest tropical cyclone rainfall contribution was over the coast of northwestern Australia with estimated totals of over 600 Millimeters (~23.6 inches). Cyclones Bianca, Carlos, Twenty, Errol and their remnants were close enough to the northwestern coast of Australia to add to these rainfall totals. Cyclones Zelia, Anthony and