- Hurricane John Gives Southern Mexico a Surprise One-Two Punch
On Monday evening, Sept. 23, 2024, an unusual hurricane struck southern Mexico, dumping 20 inches of rainfall along the coast according to estimates from NASA’s […] - Hurricane Debbie (2024) Stalls off the Coast of South Carolina
Since 2014, NASA has run the IMERG multi-satellite algorithm to estimate how much precipitation falls over the globe every 30 minutes on a grid with […] - Hurricane Ian Crosses Florida and Heads Toward South Carolina
As Hurricane Ian impacts Florida and South Carolina, NASA IMERG algorithm provides estimates of Ian’s rainfall over both land and sea. CEOSR team members assist […] - Hurricane Fiona from Caribbean to Canada
Rainfall In Nova Scotia, Canada CEOSR team members tracked Hurricane Fiona as it approached Canada in September, 2022. One of the tools they used was […] - Hurricane Henri Fights Wind Shear on Approach to New England (August 2021)
In the North Atlantic, the tropical system known as Henri reached hurricane status on Saturday, August 21, 2021. At the time, it was approaching a […] - Two Weeks of Heavy Rain and a Year of Drought Over Parts of China (July 2021)
During July 17 to 28, 2021, several storm systems brought heavy rain to parts of China and surrounding countries, while a nine-month-long drought persists in […] - Rainfall that Matters: A Convective System over Arizona within the North American Monsoon (July 2021)
There is a monsoon that occurs in the southwestern U.S. each summer, and it brought heavy rain to the deserts of Arizona this week. This […] - Australia’s Heavy Rainfall: Desert and Coast (March 2021)
larger image: click here During the week ending on March 23, 2021, two locations in Australia experienced unusually high rainfall totals. In the news, a […] - Hurricane Sally in Context (Sept. 2020)
One way to put a storm into context is to compare its precipitation to the average annual accumulation at that location. The IMERG multi-satellite precipitation […] - A Year’s Worth of Rain in a Week for a City in Pakistan (Aug. 2020)
In the last week of August 2020, Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, received over 8 inches of rainfall according to NASA’s IMERG dataset, causing destructive flooding […] - Hurricane Laura’s Hot Tower (Aug. 2020)
Two days before landfall, Laura had been forecasted to experience a period of weakening before landfall but instead, it ended up intensifying and deepening until […] - GPM Satellite Observes a Hot Tower in Squall Line off Florida’s Coast (April 2020)
At 9:26PM on Sunday April 19, 2020, NASA’s GPM satellite observed an extremely vigorous convective storm cell embedded within a squall line traveling in advance […] - IMERG Reveals Two Weeks of Heavy Rain over the Eastern Mediterranean (Jan. 2020)
In the two weeks starting on December 25, 2019, several heavy storm systems impacted countries along the eastern Mediterranean. While January is typically one of […] - Estimating Tropical Cyclone Imelda’s Rain Total over Texas (Sept. 2019)
By Friday morning, September 20, the rainfall from the remnant of Tropical Storm Imelda had increased to over 24 inches in some areas near the […] - Hurricane Dorian, from the Caribbean to Canada (Sept. 2019)
Hurricane Dorian (2019) brought heavy rain to the Caribbean, along the US East Coast, and up to Canada. NASA satellite-based precipitation estimates tracked the storm […] - Alaska’s Wildfires, Precipitation, and Lightning (summer 2019)
NASA’s satellite-based estimate of global precipitation can provide valuable information to officials monitoring the many wildfires in Alaska this summer. Wildfires occur in Alaska each […] - Large 7-day Accumulation over Western India (August 2019)
In early August 2019, a depression formed in the Bay of Bengal that moved over India contributing to heavy rainfall on India’s west coast. NASA’s […] - NASA Announces Release of 19-year Record of Global Precipitation (August 2019)
Larger image The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission has released an improved version of a multi-satellite global precipitation-rate estimate. Using this algorithm, NASA has re-examined […] - Fire and Ice: Intense Convection Observed at High Latitude by the GPM Satellite Radar and a Ground-based Lightning Network (Dec. 2018)
Books about lightning barely mention the polar regions, and books about polar regions don’t mention lightning. There are societal impacts to the severe weather that […] - A Quarter of a Million People View a Facebook Live Event about Hurricane Matthew (October 2016)
The day that Hurricane Matthew began interacting with the US East Coast, CEOSR research Owen Kelley and colleagues at NASA Goddard participated in a Facebook […]
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