Tropical Cyclone Gael
February 5, 2009 - Tropical Cyclone Gael tracked westward across the southern Indian Ocean. The storm grazed the small island of Mauritius, and had approached the central coast of Madagascar. A wide gap had opened up in the storm west of the eye, but the inward, clockwise spiral of the cloud bands was still apparent. Thunderstorms are embedded in the cloud bands; their high tops seem to boil up from the surrounding clouds. The image was acquired at 2:10 local time on Reunion Island.
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