GPM Has A Good Look At Tropical Storm Raquel
The GPM core observatory satellite recently had an excellent view of tropical storm Raquel in the South Pacific Ocean. Raquel was moving over the Solomon Islands on July 1, 2015 at 0749 UTC when viewed by GPM. Tropical cyclone activity normally ramps up in the northern hemisphere this time of the year so Raquel's development yesterday north of the Solomon Islands was a little surprising. Rainfall was measured by GPM's Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) and Microwave Imager (GMI) instruments. Those data showed that powerful thunderstorms within Raquel were dropping rain at a rate of over