This color-coded image shows rainfall amounts from June 15–21, 2010. Pockets of very heavy rain occur roughly 250 kilometers inland, near Taiwan and the Vietnam border.
This color-coded image shows precipitation amounts in the vicinity of Shanghai, Taiwan, and the East China Sea from May 19 to 25, 2010. Heaviest rain is blue and lightest rain is pale green.
Patterns running from pale green to deep blue are draped over southern China, showing rainfall totals for the week of June 4 through June 11, 2007. Though seasonal rains are not unexpected in the area, the rain that fell during the week was torrential and relentless. As the image shows, a broad stretch of China received up to 200 millimeters of rain, and some areas were inundated with up to 500 millimeters.