FNMOC is behind in providing the SSMIS data used in IMERG. Therefore, the Early and possibly Late IMERG products will contain less satellite estimates and be of somewhat lesser quality.  

FNMOC stopped providing data around 00 UTC today (8 September 2016), meaning there has been no  data available from the three operational SSMIS sensors to the TMPA-RT datasets.  As a result, more lower-quality IR-based estimates are being used.  In addition, if there are dropouts in the IR data, there is a higher probability that gaps will appear in the combined product, 3B42RT.  We will update the situation when it changes.