NASA’s TRMM satellite sees heavy rainfall in Hurricane Alex
Updated: 2010-06-30 21:51:04
Home About Our Bloggers Science by Email Science Store Twitter Subscribe NASA’s TRMM satellite sees heavy rainfall in Hurricane Alex by bjs on June 30, 2010 Hurricane Alex is generating some very heavy rainfall , and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM has been calculating it from its orbit in . space As predicted by the National Hurricane Center NHC in Miami , Florida , Alex intensified after entering the warm waters of the southwest Gulf of . Mexico At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt , Md . scientists created an analysis of Alex’s rainfall using data captured by the TRMM satellite on June 29, 2010 at 1350 UTC 9:50 a.m . EDT At that time the sustained winds around Alex were estimated to be 60 knots 69 mph Alex continued to strengthen and was
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