Climate Central: Have you been itching to see the most detailed collection of precipitation data ever pulled together? (Join the club.) Well, you're in luck. NASA has just released a vast trove of snow, rain, hail and more liquid measurements from a satellite launched earlier this year.
In late February, NASA and an international cohort of space programs launched the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory (or GPM for short), the centerpiece of a constellation of satellites watching precipitation around...