Hurricane Rita Rain Accumulation

  • Released Tuesday, September 27, 2005
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This animation shows rain accumulation from Hurricane Rita from September 18 through 25, 2005 based on data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis. Satellite cloud data from NOAA/GOES is overlaid for context. The accumulation is shown in colors ranging from green (less than 30 mm of rain) through red (80 mm or more). The TRMM satellite, using the world's only spaceborne rain radar and other microwave instruments, measures rainfall over the ocean.

Hurricane Rita rain accumulation for the period Sept 18 to 25, 2005 (missing cloud time steps are are shown by freezing last good data frame)

Hurricane Rita rain accumulation for the period Sept 18 to 25, 2005 (missing cloud time steps are skipped over)

Hurricane Rita rain accumularion from Sept 24, 2005 at 07:45 GMT

Hurricane Rita rain accumularion from Sept 24, 2005 at 07:45 GMT

Hurricane Rita rain accumularion from Sept 25, 2005 at 10:45 GMT

Hurricane Rita rain accumularion from Sept 25, 2005 at 10:45 GMT

Rain accumulation color bar (green=20mm,yellow=40mm, orange=50mm, red=80mm+)

Rain accumulation color bar
(green=20mm,yellow=40mm, orange=50mm, red=80mm+)

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Tuesday, September 27, 2005.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.

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