Aqua Image of Fantala (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Aqua Image of Fantala

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At 0915 UTC (5:15 a.m. EDT) on April 12 NASA's Aqua satellite gathered infrared temperature data on the clouds within the storm. MODIS found powerful thunderstorms with very cold cloud tops near minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 62.2 Celsius).

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