Rainfall Map for Phillipines (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Rainfall Map for Phillipines

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Peak and average rainfall over the central Philippines shows that despite being far less intense, Tropical Storm Thirty, which preceded Super Typhoon Haiyan by about three days, produced similar peak rain intensities (red) and over a similar duration, but less average rainfall (blue) than Haiyan.

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Image Credit: Hal Pierce, SSAI/NASA GSFC

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