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Record Rain Floods Brazil

More than two feet of rain fell in parts of southeast Brazil during December, resulting in widespread flooding.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen using near-real-time data provided courtesy of TRMM Science Data and Information System at Goddard Space Flight Center. Rainfall data in the table are courtesy of Márcia Seabra, analysis and forecast division of Brazil’s National Meteorology Institute (INMET). Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published January 7, 2014
Data acquired December 2013

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TRMM