Infrared Image of Cyclone Omais (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Infrared Image of Cyclone Omais

Caption

The infrared image from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of Omais on March 25 at 16:53 UTC (12:53 p.m. EDT) and revealed that its convection (rapidly rising air that creates the thunderstorms that power a tropical cyclone) was scattered and limited. It appears as if the convection center of circulation was blown apart -- which is exactly what the wind shear had done to those high thunderstorm tops.

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NASA JPL, Ed Olsen

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