NASA Sees Tropical Storm Son-Tinh Fill the Gulf of Tonkin (IMAGE)

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NASA Sees Tropical Storm Son-Tinh Fill the Gulf of Tonkin

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The AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared imagery of Tropical Storm Son-tinh on Oct. 28 at 0553 UTC (2:53 a.m. EDT) that showed a concentration of strong thunderstorms (purple) around the storm's center before it made landfall. The thunderstorms in the purple areas were reaching high into the troposphere where cloud top temperatures are as cold as -63 Fahrenheit (-52 Celsius).

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Credit: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen

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