Published on May 31, 2017
This is a 3-D Flyby animation of rainfall rates GPM satellite. GPM’s radar swath (lighter shades) found that rain was still falling at a rate of over 120mm (4.7 inches) per hour in an intense rain band moving over southeastern Bangladesh. Storm tops in these storms over southeastern Bangladesh were greater than 15.3km (9.5 miles) and over the Bay of Bengal west of Burma (Myanmar) cloud tops were almost 16 km (9.9 miles) high.
Credit: NASA JAXA, Hal Pierce
