Tropical Depression 19 Hits a Backward (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Tropical Depression 19 Hits a Backward

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Infrared satellite imagery on Oct. 22 at 12:23 p.m. EDT, from the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite showed that the strongest thunderstorms in Tropical Depression 19 stretched from the northeast to the southeast of the center of the depression's circulation. Those thunderstorms are reaching high into the troposphere where cloud top temperatures are as cold (purple) as -63F.

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NASA JPL, Ed Olsen

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