Death Toll to 13 Due to Flooding in Sri Lanka
Heavy rains forced 120,000 people out of their homes in Sri Lanka, the Associated Press reported on Jan. 11, 2011. Sri Lanka's government stated that the death toll from flooding had risen to 13, and officials were arranging food drops to hardest-hit areas in the east, according to a NASA statement.
This color-coded image shows rainfall amounts over Sri Lanka and the Bay of Bengal from Jan. 39. The heaviest rainfall appears in dark blue, and the lightest rainfall appears in light green. The heaviest precipitation is concentrated over eastern Sri Lanka.
This image is based on data from the Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis produced at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, which estimates rainfall by combining measurements from many satellites and calibrating them using rainfall measurements from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite.
