TRMM TMI Quick Look Images, subsetted at Dartmouth from global mosaics prepared by Chris Kidd, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center

Comments:

TRMM TMI data show heavy rain over KwaZulu-Natal Province in coastal South Africa near the port city of Durban during December 20 and 21; this corresponds with the news reports that over 200 millimetres of rain fell on part of Durban in 24 hours. The hardest hit areas were the impoverished settlements that surround Durban where some 2,000 people were rendered homeless after hundreds of mud and tin dwellings were destroyed in the floods and mudslides that followed the heavy rains.

In these images:

Rainfall and snowfall: yellow and white areas (yellowish white is highest intensity precipitation)

Oceans: light blue (low water vapour) to dark blue (high water vapour)

More information: http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/quicklook/

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