NASA infrared imagery sees landfalling Jimena, weak Kevin and pyrocumulus clouds

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 18:21 in Astronomy & Space

It's unusual to see towering clouds that are created from smoke and fires, but that's what showed up in the latest satellite imagery from NASA, when also capturing powerful Hurricane Jimena and Tropical Depression Kevin in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Jimena's outer rainbands were already spreading over southern Baja California at 11 a.m. EDT.

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