Tropical Cyclone Ita Drenches Australia
After coming ashore this past Friday tropical cyclone ITA dropped heavy rainfall over the weekend that caused flooding in many areas of northeastern Australia's state of Queensland. IDA has now moved back into the Coral Sea. The analysis above shows a TRMM-based near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) made at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. This analysis used TMPA precipitation data from April 1-14, 2014 during the period when ITA formed in the Coral Sea and moved along northeastern Australia's coast. IDA's locations at 0600 UTC are shown overlaid in white. The