From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sun Sep 12 08:00:48 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 o8C00lra012230 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:00:48 +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 o8B70HgH009615; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:00:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3343088 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:00:25 -0500 Received: from relay07.cites.uiuc.edu (relay07.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.4.73]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8C00PnS013075 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:00:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay07.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8C00I3Q022866 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:00:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 790E5405001E; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:00:18 -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-1009110125 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: Message-ID: <20100912000018.790E5405001E@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:00:18 -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 385 ATHW40 PHFO 120000 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0000 UTC SUN SEP 12 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 2330 UTC SEPTEMBER 11 2010 HIGH CLOUDS ARE GENERATING CEILINGS OVER KAUAI THIS EARLY AFTERNOON. SOME OF THIS CLOUDINESS...ORIENTED NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST...IS OCCASIONALLY SWEEPING ABOVE THE KAUAI CHANNEL AND OAHU AS WELL. IGNORING THE HIGH CLOUDS...SKIES ARE PREDOMINANTLY SUNNY TO PARTLY CLOUDY ACROSS THE ALOHA STATE THIS EARLY AFTERNOON. BROKEN LOW CLOUDINESS...ON THE OTHER HAND...HAS BEGUN TO FORM OVER THE NORTH KOHALA...HAMAKUA...KAU...AND KONA SLOPES ON THE BIG ISLAND...THE EAST- AND WEST-FACING SLOPES OF HALEAKALA IN EAST MAUI...AND THE WEST MAUI MOUNTAINS. LOW CLOUD MOVEMENT IS MAINLY FROM THE EAST NEAR 15 MPH...THOUGH JUST EAST OF THE BIG ISLAND LOW CLOUDS ARE MOVING FROM THE EAST-NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. EXCEPT FOR THE HIGH LEVEL CIRRUS CLOUDS NEAR KAUAI...CONDITIONS ARE CLEAR TO SCATTERED IN THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. ALOFT ABOVE 25 THOUSAND FEET...A HIGH REMAINS CENTERED ABOUT 900 MILES EAST OF THE BIG ISLAND AND HAS BEEN NEARLY STATIONARY. THE AXIS OF AN UPPER TROUGH...ORIENTED EAST-NORTHEAST TO WEST- SOUTHWEST...IS CURRENTLY 620 MILES NORTHWEST OF KAUAI AND HAS BEEN PUSHING TOWARD THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST NEAR 10 MPH OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. THE SYSTEM IS INDUCING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN 150 MILES OF 30N157W...AND IN THE AREA FROM 27.5N TO 30.5N BETWEEN 165W AND 167W. VARIOUS AMOUNTS OF HIGH CLOUDINESS EXIST ALONG THE EAST AND SOUTH FLANKS OF THE UPPER TROUGH...AND SOME OF THIS CIRRUS IS STREAKING OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE ISLAND CHAIN AS DISCUSSED IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH. CONVECTION CONTINUES TO IGNITE ALONG THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE FAR SOUTH OF HAWAII. MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FIRING FROM 10N TO 14N BETWEEN 122W AND 150W...AND FROM 06.5N TO 12.5N BETWEEN 150W AND THE DATE LINE AT 180. $$ KINEL +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.