Infrared View of Tropical Storm Murjan (IMAGE)

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Infrared View of Tropical Storm Murjan

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The AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared imagery of Tropical Storm Murjan on Oct. 25 at 1017 UTC (6:17 a.m. EDT) that showed some strong thunderstorms (purple) over Cape Guardafui, Somalia. Those thunderstorms are reaching high into the troposphere where cloud top temperatures are as cold as -63 Fahrenheit (-52 Celsius).

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Credit: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen

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