GPM Image of Kajiki (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

GPM Image of Kajiki

Caption

The GPM core satellite passed over Tropical Depression Kajiki in the South China Sea on Sept. 4 at 4:51 a.m. EDT (0851 UTC). GPM found the heaviest rainfall (yellow) in areas over central Vietnam and Laos, where it was falling at a rate of 20 mm (about 0.8 inch) per hour. Lighter rainfall rates (blue) around those areas was between 0.2 and 0.4 inches (5 and 10 mm) per hour. Light rain was also falling over Hainan Island, China (blue). The GPM rain data was overlaid on Japan's Himawari-8 satellite visible imagery of clouds.

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NASA/JAXA/NRL

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