AIRS Image of Dujuan (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

AIRS Image of Dujuan

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Sept. 27 at 17:17 UTC (1:17 p.m. EDT) the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite saw very cold, high, powerful thunderstorms (purple) with cloud top temperatures in excess of -81F/-63C/210K around the center of Dujuan.

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Credits: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen

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