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Amazon Thunder
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This shuttle astronaut photograph shows a series of mature thunderstorms located near the Parana River in southern Brazil. With abundant warm temperatures and moisture-laden air in the Amazon, large thunderstorms are commonplace. A number of overshooting tops and anvil clouds are visible at the tops of the clouds. Storms of this magnitude can drop large amounts of rainfall in a short period of time, causing flash floods.

Credit: NASA/ IDS/Earth Science Enterprise.

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.Tomeast
10/07/07 10:41 PM GMT
I would have guessed that this was a tropical setting.
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.primordialstuff
10/10/07 5:15 AM GMT
I love NASA photos!
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."-Albert Einstein
.kramden11
10/11/07 12:45 AM GMT
wow...very cool photo....
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