AIRS Image of Fernand (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

AIRS Image of Fernand

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On Sept. 3, at 5:23 a.m. EDT (0923 UTC) the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed cloud top temperatures of Tropical Storm Fernand in infrared light. AIRS found coldest cloud top temperatures (purple) of strongest thunderstorms were as cold as or colder than minus 63 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 53 degrees Celsius) around the center and in a thick band of thunderstorms over northeastern Mexico.

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NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson

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