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Scientists detect world’s coldest cloud hovering over Pacific Ocean – Livescience.com
The top of the storm cloud reached the stratosphere.
A severe thunderstorm cloud that formed over the Pacific Ocean in 2018 reached the coldest temperatures ever recorded, according to a new study.
The very top of the storm cloud reached a bone-chilling minus 167.8 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 111 degrees Celsius), colder than any storm cloud measured before. Thunderstorms and tropical cyclones, a circular low-pressure storm, can reach very high altitudes up to 11 miles (18 kilometers) from the ground where the air is much cooler, according to a statement
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