this is a digital globe image. so the flooding is invisible from space. we have had over one month s rainfall in a four-day period in some portions of southwestern india. incredible rainfall totals. in fact, the waters were so high at the kochi airport, that water was lapping up at some of the engines of the jets that are parked on the tarmacs. this is incredible. the india meteorological, overall, that i are down with rainfall totals. kerala, the state, has had the worst rainfall across the region. the good news is there is a silver lining. some computer models depict it will move further to the north. it doesn t mean it will stop immediately, but perhaps some of it could move out of the southwestern areas southeastern