7, Tomas had lost its tropical characteristics and its warm core. Tomas' remnants appear as a tight swirl of clouds at the bottom of that line of clouds near Bermuda.īy 6 p.m. East coast that looks like a question mark. The cold front appears on the satellite imagery as a line of clouds east of the U.S. GOES-13 captured an image of the cold front stalking Tomas' remnants in the Atlantic Ocean on Nov. creates images and animations using the satellite data. GOES satellites are operated by NOAA, and the NASA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Two GOES satellites cover the U.S., one the western half of the country, and the other, GOES-13, the eastern half of the country. and Atlantic Ocean basin during daylight hours and infrared images during night-time hours. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite known as GOES-13 captures visible images of the eastern half of the U.S. East Coast however, is stalking Tomas' remnants and moving east threatening to swallow the former hurricane. Tomas is now a remnant low pressure area is located in the Atlantic near 26 North and 68 West hundreds of miles south-southwest of Bermuda and has a minimum central pressure of 994 millibars today, Nov. The GOES-13 satellite is watching a flurry of activity in the Atlantic Ocean today as a cold front approaches the remnants of Hurricane Tomas and threatens to swallow it in the next couple of days. Tomas' remnants are the tight swirl of clouds at the bottom of that line of clouds (near Bermuda). The cold front is the line of clouds east of the U.S. The GOES-13 satellite captured an image of the cold front stalking Tomas' remnants in the Atlantic Ocean on Nov. GOES-13 Satellite Sees Cold Front Stalking Remnant Low of Tomas TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Haiti, which has long been vulnerable to tropical systems due to its topography and poor land conditions, reported 20 fatalities from the storm. Tomas brought upwards of 250 mm of rain (~10 inches) to far southwestern Haiti and generally between 100 and 200 mm (~4 to 6 inches to the rest of Hispaniola. TRMM data revealed that the heaviest rains fell off shore north of the Columbian and Venezuelan coasts in and around Aruba with amounts exceeding 350 mm (~14 inches). TMPA rainfall totals were compiled for the central and western Caribbean from October 31 to November 7, 2010, in association with the passage of Tomas. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center uses TRMM data to calibrate other satellites to obtain estimates of rainfall over the global Tropics. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (or TRMM) satellite was launched way back in November of 1997 with the primary mission of measuring rainfall from space using a combination of passive microwave and active radar sensors. Tomas again became a hurricane as it passed by Haiti and headed northeast through the Turks and Caicos Islands. Tomas turned northward over the central Caribbean and began to regain some of its intensity as it headed north towards Haiti. The storm briefly reached Category 2 intensity before encountering southwesterly wind shear as it was passing over the southern Caribbean, causing it to weaken to a tropical storm and then a depression. Tomas was responsible for 14 fatalities as it passed through the Lesser Antilles as a Category 1 storm. Tomas, the 19th named storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, formed from an African easterly wave moving westward across the central Atlantic. 7 and revealed excessive amounts of rainfall in the central and western Caribbean. The TRMM satellite captured data during from Oct. Haiti was spared a direct hit by Hurricane Tomas as the center passed through the Windward Passage between Haiti and eastern Cuba, but the storm did bring heavy rains and gusty winds to the west coast of Haiti west of the capital of Port-au-Prince. Tomas brought upwards of 250 mm of rain (~10 inches, shown in red) to far southwestern Haiti and generally between 100 and 200 mm (~4 to 6 inches, shown in green and yellow) to the rest of Hispaniola. The heaviest rains fell off shore north of the Columbian and Venezuelan coasts in and around Aruba with amounts exceeding 350 mm (~14 inches, shown in purple).
The solid white line shows Tomas' path with appropriate storms symbols marking the 00Z and 12Z (for 12 Zulu Time – which is 7 a.m. 7, 2010, in association with the passage of Tomas. TRMM rainfall totals are shown here for the central and western Caribbean from Oct. NASA's TRMM Satellite Sees Severe Flooding In Caribbean from Tomas
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