Aqua image of Florence (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Aqua image of Florence

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At 1:55 a.m. EDT (0555 UTC) on Sept. 10, the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite looked at Hurricane Florence in infrared light. MODIS found coldest cloud tops (red) had temperatures near minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 56.6 degrees Celsius) in the northern and western eyewall.

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