NASA Sees More Severe Weather Over Eastern Texas, Oklahoma (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Sees More Severe Weather Over Eastern Texas, Oklahoma

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The AIRS instrument onboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image that showed cloud top temperatures in the severe frontal system over Texas and Oklahoma on March 20 at 0753 UTC 34:53 am EST). The strongest thunderstorms, heaviest rainfall and coldest cloud top temperatures (around 220 Kelvin/ -63.6 F/-53.1 C) appear in purple.

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Credit: NASA/JPL, Ed Olsen

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