From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Tue Sep 14 20:01:15 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 o8EC1E4G011994 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:01:15 +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 o8DNuKrY026844; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:00:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3379337 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:00:19 -0500 Received: from relay08.cites.uiuc.edu (relay08.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.9]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8EC0JEQ015881 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:00:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay08.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8EC0CWE018707 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:00:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id A3AD9405001E; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:00:12 -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-1009140028 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: Message-ID: <20100914120012.A3AD9405001E@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:00:12 -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 620 ATHW40 PHFO 141200 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1200 UTC TUE SEP 14 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1130 UTC SEPTEMBER 14 2010 LOW CLOUD CEILINGS ARE PREVALENT OVER THE BIG ISLAND BELOW 7500 FEET THIS EARLY MORNING. SOME OF THE CLOUDINESS IS EMBEDDED WITH LIGHT SHOWERS...ESPECIALLY ON THE WINDWARD SIDE OF THE ISLE. BROKEN LOWER CLOUDS HAVE ALSO BEEN AFFECTING KAUAI. THE REST OF THE ALOHA STATE IS PREDOMINANTLY CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY...THOUGH A SWATH OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST HIGH CLOUDS...DEBRIS FROM OLD CONVECTION AND MOVING FROM THE SOUTH-SOUTHWEST...HAS BEGUN TO SWEEP OVER THE AREA FROM OAHU TO THE BIG ISLAND. LOW CLOUD MOVEMENT IS FROM THE EAST BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MPH ACROSS THE ISLAND CHAIN. IN THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS...LOWER CLOUDINESS IS SCATTERED TO BROKEN UPWIND FROM THE ISLES AND IS MOVING WEST WITH THE PREVAILING TRADE FLOW. SMALL AREAS OF PATCHY BROKEN LOW CLOUDS ARE EVIDENT SOUTHEAST CLOCKWISE THROUGH WEST OF THE BIG ISLAND...WHILE AN EXPANDING CLUSTER OF LOW CLOUDINESS IS MOVING BY JUST SOUTH OF KAUAI. SKIES ARE CLEAR TO SCATTERED ELSEWHERE...IGNORING THE HIGH CLOUDS JUST TO THE SOUTH OF OAHU AND MAUI COUNTY. ALOFT ABOVE 25 THOUSAND FEET...AN UPPER LOW HAS BECOME MORE COMPLEX SINCE LAST EVENING. IT APPEARS THERE MAY NOW BE TWO CIRCULATION CENTERS. THE MEAN POSITION OF THE LOW IS ABOUT 685 MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF KAUAI...NEAR 27.5N169W. THE FEATURE HAS MOVED TOWARD THE WEST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH OVER THE PAST SEVEN HOURS. THE LOW IS PART OF A LARGE UPPER TROUGH...ORIENTED NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST...THAT HAS BEEN NEARLY STATIONARY WEST AND NORTHWEST OF THE ISLANDS. THE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE HAS BEEN INDUCING SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...MOST OF WHICH ARE CURRENTLY LOCATED FROM 19N TO 26N BETWEEN 168W AND 175.5W. CONVECTION HAS BECOME WEAK AND SPARSE ALONG THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE SOUTH OF HAWAII OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. ONE AREA OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IS FOUND FROM 07N TO 12N BETWEEN 132W AND 146W...AND ANOTHER IS FROM 05.5N TO 16N BETWEEN 157W AND 167W. MORE ACTIVITY IS LOCATED WEST OF 175W FROM 07N TO 14N. $$ 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.