From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sun Sep 5 20:30:36 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 o85CUZ28013170 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 20:30:36 +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 o8550kDN001569; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:30:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3236119 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:30:16 -0500 Received: from relay06.cites.uiuc.edu (relay06.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.8]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o85CUFZs000907 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:30:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay06.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o85CU9Km024374 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:30:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1D6FB405001E; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:30:09 -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=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-1005130000 definitions=main-1009050051 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: Message-ID: <20100905123009.1D6FB405001E@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:30:09 -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 300 ATHW40 PHFO 051230 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1230 UTC SUN SEP 05 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1200 UTC SEPTEMBER 05 2010 CLOUD COVER ACROSS THE SMALLER ISLANDS HAS INCREASED SLIGHTLY SINCE LAST EVENING...WHILE CLOUD COVER ACROSS THE LEEWARD SIDE OF THE BIG ISLAND HAS DECREASED. KAUAI NOW HAS BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS ACROSS ITS EASTERN THIRD. OAHU IS UNCHANGED...WITH BROKEN LOW CLOUDS ACROSS THE KOOLAU SUMMITS AND WINDWARD SLOPES. BROKEN LOW CLOUDS HAVE SPREAD WESTWARD ACROSS MOLOKAI...NOW COVERING ALMOST ALL OF THAT ISLAND. LOW CLOUDS SLOUGHING OFF OF WEST MAUI HAS LANAI SKIES ALMOST COMPLETELY COVERED AS WELL. WINDWARD HALEAKALA SLOPES AND WINDWARD WEST SLOPES ON MAUI HAVE BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS. OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS COVER ALL WINDWARD BIG ISLAND SLOPES...BUT KAU SLOPES HAVE ALMOST CLEARED. KONA SHORES AND SLOPES RETAINS BROKEN LOW CLOUDS FROM MILOLII TO CAPTAIN COOK. SATELLITE LOOP SHOWS LOW CLOUDS MOVING ACROSS HAWAIIAN WATERS GENERALLY TOWARD THE WEST SOUTHWEST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. WATER VAPOR LOOP...SHOWING FEATURES ABOVE ABOUT 24000 FEET...SHOWS AN UPPER LOW NEAR 31N164W...ABOUT 630 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. AN AREA OF BROKEN HIGH CLOUDS FROM 33N165W TO 30N158W TO 28N164W LIES ALONG THE EASTERN FLANK OF THIS UPPER LOW. THIS FEATURE APPEARS TO BE DRIFTING TOWARD THE SOUTH SLOWLY. ANOTHER UPPER LOW IS NOTED NEAR 34N145W...MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST SLOWLY. A 200 TO 250 MILE WIDE BAND OF OVERCAST LAYERED CLOUDS LIES NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 50N147W TO 43N160W TO 37N170W. THESE CLOUDS JOIN WITH MORE OVERCAST LAYERED CLOUDS WEST OF 170W BETWEEN 36N AND 55N. THE BAND OF LOW CLOUDS HAS NARROWED SINCE LAST EVENING AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WHILE THE LAYERED CLOUDS WEST OF 170W MARKS THE EASTERN FLANK OF A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM STILL JUST WEST OF THE DATELINE. THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE IS MARKED BY ISOLATED CUMULONIMBUS...CB...AND BROKEN TO OVERCAST LAYERED CLOUDS EAST OF 152W BETWEEN 07N AND 12N. MORE CB LIE WEST OF 176W BETWEEN 08N AND 13N. A RAGGED 120 MILE WIDE BAND OF BROKEN LOW CLOUDS LINKS THE TWO CB AREAS ALONG AN ARC FROM 08N152W TO 07N157W TO 09N176W. $$ POWELL +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.