Flooding along the Shire River, Mozambique and Malawi

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In January 2015, several bouts of heavy rain triggered widespread flooding in southern Africa. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the EO-1 satellite captured this image of flooding along the Shire River in Malawi and Mozambique on January 26, 2015. See this gallery for more satellite imagery of flooding in southern Africa.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Adam Voiland.

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Heavy rains in southern Africa caused severe flooding along the Shire River in January 2015.

Instrument:: EO-1 — ALI

Flooding in Southern Africa

Rivers in southern Africa were swollen and brown with sediment in January 2015 in the wake of a tropical storm system that brought heavy rain to the region.