Suomi NPP Image of Hurricane Patricia (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Suomi NPP Image of Hurricane Patricia

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When NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Patricia on Oct. 23 at 5:23 a.m. EDT the VIIRS instrument that flies aboard Suomi NPP looked at the storm in infrared light. Cloud top temperatures of thunderstorms around the eyewall were near minus 90 Celsius (minus 130 Fahrenheit).

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