NASA Sees Typhoon Malakas Battering Southern Japan

In this 3-D flyby of GPM’s radar data, when the GPM core satellite passed over Malakas at 0046 UTC on Sept. 19 (8:46 p.m. EDT on Sept. 18) the typhoon was starting to cause light to moderate rainfall over Japan’s southern island of Kyushu. Credit: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce