After traversing the northern Caribbean and eastern Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Dennis made landfall along the northern Gulf Coast in the Florida panhandle on the afternoon of 10 July 2005 not too far from where Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall just five days earlier. After coming ashore between Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach, Dennis tracked up through western Alabama through northern Mississippi and into southern Illinois. Fortunately, there have not been any reports of widespread flooding in association with Dennis up through the central Mississippi Valley. Parts of Georgia, however, did receive upwards of 10 inches of rain as a result of one of the outer rainbands from Dennis stalling out over the state well east of the center. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite has been measuring rainfall over the Tropics since its launch in 1997. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center provides estimates of rainfall over the global Tropics. MPA rainfall totals due solely to Dennis are shown for the period 5 to 13 July 2005 with storm symbols marking the track of Dennis. The highest totals are on the order of 12 inches of rain (dark red areas) over central Cuba. Amounts over the southeast are not particularly high with accumulations of 2 to 5 inches (green areas) over Georgia, Alabama, northern Mississippi and southern Missouri. Locally heavier amounts on the order of 7 inches (orange area) appear along the Florida coast well east of the storm track.

TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).