Cyclone Evan's Cloud Heights and Rainfall (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Cyclone Evan's Cloud Heights and Rainfall

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TRMM captured data on Cyclone Evan's cloud heights and rainfall on Dec. 16 and spotted an extremely tall storm-cell in the north side of the eyewall. The updrafts in this tower extended high enough to lift precipitation-size ice 17 km above the ocean surface (red in the image). The insert shows the infrared cloud top temperatures. The clockwise arrow shows the direction of the winds circling the eyewall. At the north side of the eyewall, the explosive circular shape is the upper-level outflow from the extremely tall tower,

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Credit: NASA/Owen Kelley

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