From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Thu Sep 2 20:30:39 2010 Received: from vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.113]) by cozumel.ust.hk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o82CUc5m009296 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:30:39 +0800 Received: from vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.113]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o823KXMD014070; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:30:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3192972 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:30:17 -0500 Received: from relay09.cites.uiuc.edu (relay09.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.4.86]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o82CUHIc004995 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:30:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay09.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o82CUASI009012 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:30:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id B15B0405001E; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:30:10 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Details: rule=no-quarantine_notspam policy=no-quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=98 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-1005130000 definitions=main-1009020060 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: Message-ID: <20100902123010.B15B0405001E@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:30:10 -0500 Reply-To: wxmaster@COX.NET Sender: WX-TROPL Tropical Storm and Hurricane WX products From: LDM Weather Subject: Central Pacific: Satellite Interpretation Message To: WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Precedence: list 950 ATHW40 PHFO 021230 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1230 UTC THU SEP 02 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1200 UTC SEPTEMBER 02 2010 LIGHT TO MODERATE TRADE WINDS PREVAIL OVER THE ISLANDS AND SURROUNDING WATERS EARLY THIS MORNING...WITH LOW CLOUDS IN GREATER CONCENTRATION AS COMPARED TO THIS TIME LAST NIGHT. IN ADDITION... THE LOW LEVEL FLOW...AS DEDUCED FROM LOW CLOUD MOTIONS...HAS BACKED A LITTLE TOWARD THE NORTHEAST OVER THE SAME TIME PERIOD. THE ISLAND OF KAUAI IS ON THE SOUTHWEST EDGE OF A BLOCK OF OVERCAST TO BROKEN STRATOCUMULUS /SC/ AND CUMULUS /CU/...THAT EXTEND OVER 400 MILES TO THE NORTHEAST. LOW CLOUDS UPSTREAM OF THE OTHER ISLANDS ARE NOT AS THICK AS THEY ARE TO THE NORTHEAST OF KAUAI...AND CAN BEST BE DESCRIBED AS BEING SCATTERED TO LOCALLY BROKEN IN COVERAGE. RADAR IS CURRENTLY DETECTING SCATTERED SHOWERS FALLING FROM THE SHOWERY CU OVER THE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT WATERS...WITH SHOWERS MOST ACTIVE OVER KAUAI AND OAHU DURING THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. SHOWER INTENSITY IS PRIMARILY MODERATE...BUT SMALL CORES OF HEAVY RAIN ARE EMBEDDED. LOW CLOUDS AND SHOWERS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST AT SPEEDS NEAR 15 MPH. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS A HIGH ALOFT CENTERED SOUTHWEST OF THE ISLANDS...HAVING MOVED SLOWLY WEST OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS. THE FLOW ALOFT OVER THE ISLANDS IS FROM THE NORTHWEST...WITH A TROUGH ALOFT EXTENDING TOWARD THE ISLANDS FROM A WEAKLY DEFINED LOW FAR NORTHEAST OF THE ISLANDS NEAR 30N142W. THE TROUGH AXIS EXTENDS ALONG A LINE FROM THE LOW TO 26N148W TO NEAR 22N153W...AND APPEARS TO HAVE SHARPENED A LITTLE OVER THE PAST 6 HOURS OR SO...AS SHORTWAVE TROUGH ALOFT HAS MOVED SOUTHEAST INTO THE LONGWAVE TROUGH AXIS. ONLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS EXIST WITHIN THE NEAR EQUATORIAL TRADE WIND CONVERGENCE ZONE WELL SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHWEST OF THE ISLANDS...PRIMARILY FROM 7N TO 11N BETWEEN 156W AND 179W...AND LACK SIGNIFICANT ORGANIZATION. $$ BIRCHARD +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from WX-TROPL send e-mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU with "unsub wx-tropl" in the body of your message. For help with WX-TROPL write to cnovy@cox.net. For more information on tropical weather products, see the NHC Homepage at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov.