Suomi NPP Image of Patricia (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Suomi NPP Image of Patricia

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When NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Patricia on Oct. 23 at 5:20 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 between 180K (-135.7F/ -93.1C) and 190 Kelvin (-117.7F/ -83.1C).

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Credits: UW/CIMSS/William Straka III

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