NASA Spies Heavy Rain in 3-D
NASA has released a 3-D satellite image of Hurricane Wilma from Friday, showing rain rates of over 50 mm per hour (2 inches per hour) as Wilma prepared for landfall in Mexico's Yucatan.
NASA Hurricane Wilma TRMM
Click on image to enlarge. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite observed Wilma approaching the Yucatan Peninsula at 8:55 pm EDT October 20, 2005. This 3-D perspective of Wilma shows a cut away view of the eye with cloud height on the top right side of the storm and rain rates in the lower left side of the storm. TRMM reveals that Wilma has a well-defined, closed inner eye of intense rain surrounded by larger concentric rings of more moderate rain. The sharply-curved features in the rain field surrounding the inner eye are the mark of well-developed, intense circulation. At the time of the image, Wilma was a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds reported at 150 miles per hour by the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
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