91S becomes Tropical Cyclone 24S as NASA's TRMM captures its rainfall

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 17:26 in Earth & Climate

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite has been flying over the low pressure area known as System 91S in the Southern Indian Ocean and providing estimates of rainfall within the storm. The storm has now strengthened enough to be reclassified as the twenty-fourth southern hemispheric tropical cyclone, "24S."

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