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Total Rainfall From Hurricane Helene

IMERG Total Precipitation - Hurricane Helene
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Maps the total rain that fell across the Southeast U.S. from September 23-30, 2024 during Hurricane Helene.

How it's made. From NASA's IMERG product, which combines many satellites to estimate rainfall worldwide.

How & where you'd use it. Helps explain where heavy rain triggered flooding and landslides during the storm.

What's measured

landslidesimerg

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-09-29 → 2024-09-29
  • Spatial extent-90.011, 24.973, -74.919, 38.268
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

Total accumulated precipitation from IMERG Final over September 23-30, 2024 to cover precipitation related to Hurricane Helene in the Southeast US.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("landslides-imerg")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).