Aqua Image of Paul (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Aqua Image of Paul

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At 2:30 a.m. EDT (0630 UTC) on Sept. 10, 2018 the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite looked at Tropical Storm Paul in infrared light. MODIS found coldest cloud tops (red) had temperatures near minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 56.6 degrees Celsius) were pushed southwest of the center from wind shear.

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