NASA AIRS Infrared Image of Nida and 97W (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA AIRS Infrared Image of Nida and 97W

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This infrared image from AIRS shows Nida fading top left (in purple and blue) on Dec. 2 at 16:11 UTC (11:11 a.m. ET) and System 97W developing (bottom right). The highest, coldest, thunderstorm cloud tops are in purple (as cold as -63F).

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NASA JPL, Ed Olsen

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