AIRS Image of Barbara (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

AIRS Image of Barbara

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On July 2, 2019 at 5:17 a.m. EDT (0917 UTC) the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed cloud top temperatures of Hurricane Barbara in infrared light. AIRS found coldest cloud top temperatures (purple) of strongest thunderstorms were as cold as or colder than minus 81.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 63.1 degrees Celsius).

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NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson

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