GPM sees Hurricane Lane threatening Hawaiian islands with heavy rainfall

GPM sees Hurricane Lane threatening Hawaiian islands with heavy rainfall

6 years ago
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https://phys.org/news/2018-08-gpm-hurricane-lane-threatening-hawaiian.html

Hurricane Lane is one of the strongest tropical cyclones to move into the Hawaiian Islands.

At the time of this GPM pass Lane was a category five on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale with winds of about 140 knots (161 mph). This analysis shows precipitation derived from data collected by the GPM satellite's Microwave Imager (GMI) and Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) instruments. GPM's GMI showed that very heavy rain was occurring with powerful storms located in Hurricane Lane's well defined eye wall. GMI revealed that moderate to heavy rainfall was also covering a large area extending outward from Lane's eye.