Highest Tops

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What are the highest tops you have seen depicted on a sat/radar wx map?
From Matt's thread yesterday, his image of 670 (cloud not ppte) is the highest I've ever seen.

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I don't think those cloud tops are necessarily accurate. My understanding is they estimate it from the cloud top temperatures and correlate that to altitude. It's not like they're measuring the tops with radar (they can't).
 
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