IMERG Rainfall Estimates (image)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Caption

From Aug. 4 to Aug. 11, 2016, IMERG showed the most extreme rainfall fell over the waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico, south of the Florida Panhandle, where between 20 inches (500 mm, shown in purple) to more than about 35 inches (900 mm, shown in pink) may have fallen. Over coastal areas, about 12 to 16 inches (300 to 400 mm, shown in dark red) occurred, mostly along the northeast and north-central Florida Gulf Coast, along with parts of southeastern Louisiana.

Credit

NASA/JAXA/Hal Pierce

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