Aqua image of Fay (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Aqua image of Fay

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On July 10 at 2:55 a.m. EDT (0655 UTC), the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite gathered temperature information about Tropical Storm Fay's cloud tops. MODIS found powerful thunderstorms where temperatures were as cold as or colder than minus 63 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 53 Celsius) mostly over the western Atlantic Ocean and over parts of coastal Delaware and southern New Jersey.

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