The Tropical Rain Measuring Mission is a joint space mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) designed to monitor and study tropical rainfall.
The website (http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov) is one of the MUST SEE stop overs of STH and is used along with that of India Meteorological Department (http://imd.gov.in) to send out SMS alerts on heavy rainfall warnings.
The photo above shows Cyclone "WARD" as it brews off the coast of Tamil Nadu today - IMD has already issued a severe weather warning for the area.
Praful Rao
