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GPM overpass of Hurricane Ian on Sept. 26, 2022
Hurricane Ian became one of the strongest hurricanes on record to strike Florida when it made landfall Wednesday, Sept. 28th, 2022, around 3:10 pm (EDT) as a Category 4 storm near Cayo Costa, FL, about 20 miles west-southwest of Punta Gorda on Florida’s southwest coast. This same area was hit hard by Hurricane Charley in 2004, which also made landfall as a strong Category 4 storm. Both storms passed over and were intensified by the deep, warm waters of the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Ian originated from a tropical easterly wave that propagated westward off the coast of Africa across the
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Affiliation: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA Project Mentee: María Paula Hobouchian
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Affiliation: University of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA Role: GPM Mentorship Session Facilitator
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Affiliation: Texas A&M University, College Station, USA Project Mentees: Armand Kablan , Ayuna Santika
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Affiliation: Science Systems and Applications, Inc. and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA Project Mentees: Simon Ageet
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Affiliation: NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC) and George Mason University, Greenbelt, Maryland Project Mentee: Simon Ageet
IMERG precipitation totals from Hurricane Ian
Hurricane Ian formed in the Caribbean Sea on Sept. 26, 2022. Ian intensified to Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale by the time it made landfall in western Cuba early the next day. NASA's near real-time IMERG algorithm was used to estimate the precipitation from Ian during its formation and intensification. IMERG shows that Ian's largest rainfall accumulation so far, over 12 inches, occurred while it was only a tropical storm and not yet a hurricane. The National Hurricane Center provided an estimate of the distance that tropical storm-force winds extended from Ian's low-pressure
GPM overpass of Hurricane Fiona on Sept. 23, 2022.
After leaving the Caribbean, Hurricane Fiona became both the strongest and the first major hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season as it made its way northward through the western Atlantic. Fiona began as an African easterly wave that moved across the tropical Atlantic in the direction of the Caribbean. While still about 800 miles east of the Leeward Isles, this wave organized into a tropical depression on Sept.14th. Later that same day, the depression strengthened and became Tropical Storm Fiona. Fiona remained a moderate tropical storm as it passed through the Leeward Isles on the
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Affiliation: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA Project Mentees: Odinaka Echeta
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Affiliation: ADNET Systems, Inc. & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA Project Mentees: Simon Ageet