NASA’s New View of the Daily Cycle of Rain

The most detailed view of our daily weather has been created using NASA's newest extended precipitation record known as the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM, or IMERG analysis.

The IMERG analysis combines almost 20 years of rain and snow data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and the joint NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM).

The daily cycle of weather, also known as the diurnal cycle, shapes how and when our weather develops and is fundamental to regulating our climate.

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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng

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[jericorful]

Awesome information and thanks for sharing 👍

[The_Robert.Fletcher]

It's nice to see that our understanding of the weather cycles is expanding.

[marshallemmett]

I'd be interested to know what the past 5 years of rain fall has been like in southwest Florida (year on year).
I'm a born a raised Floridian and the Summer rainy season hasn't been so much rainy as much as hot the last at least couple of years.

[MrScooter]

This was wonderfully done, great information concisely explained. Thank you. That is interesting to learn about the details of the effects in the rain cycle because of the differences between land and sea temperatures. How did we learn this? And who?

[Lumpiluk]

Cool! But why not a perceptually uniform colormap?

[robotspyder]

In Canada, every night no matter what there is I stayed up 3 times in an order just so I can figure out why my mom’s car is so wet every morning, so if your experiencing the same problem, say thanks to this 11 year old who wasted a lot of his energy.

[dhamby]

Maybe weather reporters will get the weather right more than 50% of the time soon. 😉