IMERG Data from Maria (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

IMERG Data from Maria

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On Oct. 2 at 4:30 a.m. EDT (0830 UTC), NASA's IMERG estimated Hurricane Maria was generating as much as 50 mm (2 inches of rain/dark red) around the center of circulation. Rainfall throughout most of the storm was occurring between 3 and 20 mm (0.1 to 0.8 inches/yellow, green and pink colors) per hour. The rainfall data was overlaid on infrared imagery from NOAA's GOES-16 satellite.

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