Nighttime Suomi NPP Image of Irma (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Nighttime Suomi NPP Image of Irma

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At 2:57 a.m. AST/EDT on Sept. 7, Suomi NPP's Day Night Band imagery and the waning gibbous moon highlighted the convection around Irma's eye and tropospheric gravity waves were present around the well-defined eyewall.

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Credits: NOAA/NASA/UWM-CIMSS, William Straka III

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