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Torrential Rains flood Australia
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Published January 14, 2009
During the first two weeks of January 2009, torrential rains brought both drought relief and severe flooding to parts of Queensland and Northern Territory in northern Australia.
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Typhoon Dolphin
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Published December 16, 2008
Rain rates in a few cloud bands on the eastern side of Typhoon Dolphin approached 50 millimeters per hour (red) when the storm was observed by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite on December 14, 2008.
Hurricane Paloma
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Published November 7, 2008
Although it was November, Cuba potentially faced its a third major hurricane of the season as Hurricane Paloma approached. Hurricane Paloma became an intensifying Category 2 storm on November 7, a few hours after TRMM captured this image.
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A late-season storm, Paloma developed as a tropical depression in the Caribbean off the coast of Honduras and Nicaragua on November 5, 2008. This image shows the storm as a Category 1 hurricane on November 6.
Flooding in Central America
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Published October 31, 2008
Tropical Depression 16 moved ashore over Honduras on October 16 and slowly cut its way over Central America, dumping heavy rain from southeastern Mexico to Costa Rica.
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Hurricane Ike Weakens over Cuba
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Published September 10, 2008
As Hurricane Ike battered Cuba on September 8, 2008, the rugged island punched back. Rainfall rates dropped dramatically as the storm crossed the island, losing power from a Category 4 to Category 2 hurricane.
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