NASA Analyzes Record-Breaking Hurricane Patricia
When NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Patricia on October 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). Credit: UW/CIMSS/William Straka III Read more: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/f…/goddard/patricia-eastern-pacific-2015" rel="nofollow">www.nasa.gov/f…/goddard/patricia-eastern-pacific-2015</a>
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