Figure 6

Mean precipitation rate values from All TCs (no smoothing) measured by PDIR-CDR during the 1990–2019 period (magenta) compared to sea surface temperature anomaly measurements (blue) from NOAA NCEI’s Climate at a Glance data portal58. Two trends are analyzed: 30-year (1990–2019) and TRMM-era (1998–2016), which show an increase in precipitation rates of 11.1%/C and 7.6%/C, respectively.