Phillippine rainfall and Flooding

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People in the southern Philippines are used to heavy rainfall this time of the year but rainfall totals have recently been exceptionally high. A tropical low known as System 91W, located northeast of Mindanao has been an almost permanent feature on weather maps for the past week. NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's TRMM satellite has provided data on rainfall and flooding that was used to create a map of the event.

 

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/91w-northwestern-pacific-ocean/#.UtmXa_vLfct