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Tropical Storm brings Heavy
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Tropical Storm brings Heavy Rains to Burma |
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Unnamed tropical storm 02B came ashore along the northwest coast of Burma (Myanmar) on the 19th of May 2004 bringing with it strong winds and heavy rains. The system formed in the northern Bay of Bengal on May 17, and moved east as a strong tropical storm with maximum sustained winds estimated at 60 knots (69 mph) by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center as it crossed the coast of Burma. The system came ashore near the port city of Sittwe not far from the border with Bangladesh. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center monitors rainfall over the global tropics. MPA rainfall totals for the region surrounding the northern Bay of Bengal are shown for the period 12-19 May 2004. Up to 20 inches of rain (darkest red areas) fell over the foothills and southern slopes of the Himalayan Mountains over northeastern Indian and Bhutan and along the north east coastline of the Bay of Bengal over far western Burma and southern Bangladesh. The heavy rain over western Burma and southern Bangladesh was a direct result of tropical storm 02B, while most of the heavy rain farther north along the slopes of the Himalayas was a result of low pressure centered over northern India and Nepal drawing moisture up from the Bay of Bengal earlier in the period. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Tropical Storm brings Heavy
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Tropical Storm brings Heavy Rains to Burma |
| Description |
Unnamed tropical storm 02B came ashore along the northwest coast of Burma (Myanmar) on the 19th of May 2004 bringing with it strong winds and heavy rains. The system formed in the northern Bay of Bengal on May 17, and moved east as a strong tropical storm with maximum sustained winds estimated at 60 knots (69 mph) by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center as it crossed the coast of Burma. The system came ashore near the port city of Sittwe not far from the border with Bangladesh. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center monitors rainfall over the global tropics. MPA rainfall totals for the region surrounding the northern Bay of Bengal are shown for the period 12-19 May 2004. Up to 20 inches of rain (darkest red areas) fell over the foothills and southern slopes of the Himalayan Mountains over northeastern Indian and Bhutan and along the north east coastline of the Bay of Bengal over far western Burma and southern Bangladesh. The heavy rain over western Burma and southern Bangladesh was a direct result of tropical storm 02B, while most of the heavy rain farther north along the slopes of the Himalayas was a result of low pressure centered over northern India and Nepal drawing moisture up from the Bay of Bengal earlier in the period. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Tropical Storm brings Heavy
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Tropical Storm brings Heavy Rains to Burma |
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Unnamed tropical storm 02B came ashore along the northwest coast of Burma (Myanmar) on the May 19, 2004, bringing with it strong winds and heavy rains. The system formed in the northern Bay of Bengal on May 17, and moved east as a strong tropical storm with maximum sustained winds estimated at 60 knots (69 mph) by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center as it crossed the coast of Burma. The system came ashore near the port city of Sittwe not far from the border with Bangladesh. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite measures rainfall over the global tropics using both active and passive sensors. TRMM snapped this image of tropical storm 02B inland over Burma. Taken at 11:47 UTC on the 19th, it shows the horizontal distribution of rain intensity from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR) in the center swath and the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) in the outer swath overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). The image shows that the system has weakened over land as the center of the storm is surrounded mainly by light (blue) to occasionally moderate (green areas) rain with the southern part nearly void of rain. Further south of the center, part of a more intense rain area (dark red) is visible in a rainband. The strong convective storms (dark red centers) well west of the tropical storm located just west of Bangladesh over India are not associated with the tropical storm. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Tropical Storm brings Heavy
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| Title |
Tropical Storm brings Heavy Rains to Burma |
| Description |
Unnamed tropical storm 02B came ashore along the northwest coast of Burma (Myanmar) on the May 19, 2004, bringing with it strong winds and heavy rains. The system formed in the northern Bay of Bengal on May 17, and moved east as a strong tropical storm with maximum sustained winds estimated at 60 knots (69 mph) by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center as it crossed the coast of Burma. The system came ashore near the port city of Sittwe not far from the border with Bangladesh. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite measures rainfall over the global tropics using both active and passive sensors. TRMM snapped this image of tropical storm 02B inland over Burma. Taken at 11:47 UTC on the 19th, it shows the horizontal distribution of rain intensity from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR) in the center swath and the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) in the outer swath overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). The image shows that the system has weakened over land as the center of the storm is surrounded mainly by light (blue) to occasionally moderate (green areas) rain with the southern part nearly void of rain. Further south of the center, part of a more intense rain area (dark red) is visible in a rainband. The strong convective storms (dark red centers) well west of the tropical storm located just west of Bangladesh over India are not associated with the tropical storm. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Floods in Bangladesh
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Floods in Bangladesh |
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Bangladesh's annual monsoon started with unusually heavy rain, intensified by a storm from the Bay of Bengal on June 9-10, 2007. By June 11, more than one-third of the southeastern coastal city of Chittagong was under water, reported the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. [ http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200706/s1948143.htm ] In addition to the floods, the rains triggered devastating landslides in the deforested hills on which the city is built. The country-wide death toll from the floods and landslides neared 130 on June 12, said Reuters. [ http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/LRON-744DMF?OpenDocument ] Most of the deaths were a result of the landslides or from buildings collapsing in the rain. This image shows rainfall totals over Bangladesh between June 4 and June 11, 2007. The rainfall totals are from the Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis, which is based on measurements from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ]) satellite. Rainfall totals range from 0 to 100 millimeters (4 inches), shown in blue, to 400 mm (15.7 inches) to 500 mm (19.7 inches), shown in red. Most of the country received between 200 and 300 millimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches) of rain during the week-long period, though there are several pockets of heavier rain. Chittagong sits in one such pocket, where up to 400 mm (15.7 inches) of rain fell. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency, JAXA. NASA images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Floods in Bangladesh: Natura
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Bangladesh's annual monsoon
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Bangladesh_TRM_2007162
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image |
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2007-06-11 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Bangladesh_TRM_2007162 |
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Tropical Storm brings Heavy
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Unnamed tropical storm 02B c
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bangladesh_rain_TRMM2004140
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2004-05-19 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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bangladesh_rain_TRMM2004140 |
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Tropical Storm brings Heavy
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Unnamed tropical storm 02B c
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bangladesh_rain_TRMM2004140
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2004-05-19 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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bangladesh_rain_TRMM2004140 |
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India Cyclone: Natural Hazar
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
A tropical cylone that hit I
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IndiaCyclone_trm2002316
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2002-11-12 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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IndiaCyclone_trm2002316 |
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Tropical Storm brings Heavy
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Unnamed tropical storm 02B c
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bangladesh_cyclone_TRMM2004
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2004-05-19 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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bangladesh_cyclone_TRMM2004 |
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Tropical Storm brings Heavy
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Unnamed tropical storm 02B c
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bangladesh_cyclone_TRMM2004
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2004-05-19 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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bangladesh_cyclone_TRMM2004 |
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