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A Dry Start to South America’s Wet Season

As the wet season approached in South America, intense drought still ran deep across the Amazon basin and much of Brazil.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data courtesy of Yang Chen, University of California Irvine, and the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published December 1, 2016
Data acquired October 2016

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