Aqua image of 06A (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Aqua image of 06A

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On Dec. 4 at 4:55 a.m. EST (0955 UTC), the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite gathered temperature information about Tropical Storm 06A's cloud tops. MODIS found several small areas of powerful thunderstorms (yellow) where temperatures were as cold as or colder than minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 62.2 degrees Celsius), embedded in a much larger area of slightly warmer cloud tops (red) of minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 56.6 Celsius).

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