AIRS image of Faxai (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

AIRS image of Faxai

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On Sept. 8 at 11.59 p.m. EDT (Sept. 9 at 0359 UTC) the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed cloud top temperatures of Tropical Storm Faxai in infrared light. AIRS found coldest cloud top temperatures (purple) of strongest thunderstorms were as cold as or colder than minus 63 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 53 degrees Celsius) around the center and in a large band east of center.

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Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson

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