An Infrared View of Tropical Cyclone Solo (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

An Infrared View of Tropical Cyclone Solo

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On April 10, the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite saw cloud top temperatures as cold as 210 kelvin/-63.1F/-81.6C (purple) in powerful thunderstorms circling Solo's center and in a fragmented thunderstorm band east.

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NASA JPL/Ed Olsen

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