3-D View of Maria Precipitation (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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The GPM core observatory satellite flew over Maria on Sept. 25, 2017, at 9:28 p.m. EDT (Sept. 26, 2017, at 0128 UTC) and saw the western side of the hurricane was drier and contained much less precipitation than the eastern side. DPR found a few convective storms within Maria dropping rain at a rate of less than 2 inches (51 mm) per hour.

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NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce

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