[decimon]

Caption: This impressive infrared image of Hurricane Igor from NASA's AIRS instrument shows a clear and large eye, and very strong convection (purple) and high, powerful thunderstorm cloud tops around his center. The image was captured from the AIRS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite on Sept. 14 at 14:47 UTC (10:47 a.m. EDT). Note the warm ocean temperatures (dark orange) well over the 80 degree F threshold needed to maintain intensity.

Credit: NASA/JPL, Ed Olsen

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[ComputerGuy]

Well, based on that pic, I’d say we’ll soon be calling it Eyegor.

[Blueflag]

Isn’t the standard lapse rate 3 degrees per thousand feet, so *IF* we go from say 85 degree F water temps to MINUS 85 degrees at the cloud tops ... and presume we have cloud tops in the purple at the FL 550 ... that means we need to drop 170 degrees F in 55,000 feet for a lapse rate of OMG 3 degrees per thousand feet.

OMG it’s a monster storm!!!

sarcasm off.

[unkus]

I wonder which Muslim invented this AIRS system for NASA. I’ll call the White House and find out.

[1rudeboy]

I say, fake—everyone knows the ocean doesn’t glow orange.

[Young Werther]

Fortunately there is some cover available!

That is quite a front moving in!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon!

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