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Tropical Cyclone Cilla

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2024-01-27 12:00:00
January 27, 2003

This true-color image from the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft shows Tropical Cyclone Cilla located approximately 333 miles east of Suva, Fiji. Maximum sustained winds are near 40 mph and Cilla is expected to slowly transition to an extratropical system as it moves to the south.

Visit the MODIS Rapid Response Team, for a copy of this scene at MODIS' full resolution of 250 meters per pixel.

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Image courtesy Jeffrey Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.

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