Floods in Brazil December 2013

• December of 2013 was an extremely rainy month for the states of Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais and Bahia in Brazil.

• The state of Minas Gerais withstood 852.4 millimeters (32.8 inches) of rain from December 1 to 27, more than 400 percent of December’s average rainfall.

• (Source: Brazil’s National Meteorology Institute)

Floods in Brazil

• Picture # 1, taken December 30, 2013

• Picture # 2, taken December 27, 2012

• (View image comparison, from NASA Earth Observatory).

Floods in Brazil December 2013

• Espirito Santo Governor, Renato Casagrande, said the floods were the worst in the past nine decades. (BBC News, December,2013)

Floods in Brazil December 2013

• Renan de Almeida, PU1ARE, Radioamadorismo Capixaba Group, Espiritu Santo, Brazil, December 2013.

Luis Paulo, PU1GLP

Floods in Brazil, December 2013

THANK YOUCesar Pio Santos, HR2P/ GAREC 2014