From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Tue Sep 21 02:00:33 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 o8KI0Wgd010631 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:00:33 +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 o8K50FsK028356; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:00:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3490173 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:00:17 -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 o8KI0Gu9008436 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:00:16 -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 o8KI09Wb024722 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:00:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 6C8364050020; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:00:09 -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-1009200092 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: Message-ID: <20100920180009.6C8364050020@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:00:09 -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 877 ATHW40 PHFO 201800 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1800 UTC MON SEP 20 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1730 UTC SEPTEMBER 20 2010 LOW CLOUD CEILINGS THIS MORNING ARE PREVALENT OVER WINDWARD AND MAUKA SECTIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL ISLES...WITH SOME OF THE BROKEN LOW CLOUDINESS MAKING INTO LEEWARD AREAS OF THE SMALLER ISLES AND WEST MAUI. LEEWARD PORTIONS OF EAST MAUI AND THE BIG ISLAND ARE CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY...AS ARE THE WESTERN THIRDS OF OAHU AND KAUAI. LOW CLOUD MOTION IS FROM THE EAST-NORTHEAST BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MPH. CLOUDINESS FROM AN OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS CAUSING OCCASIONAL LOW CEILINGS NORTH CLOCKWISE THROUGH SOUTH OF THE BIG ISLAND. BROKEN LOW CLOUDS ARE ALSO PRODUCING CEILINGS IMMEDIATELY NORTH AND SOUTHWEST OF MAUI COUNTY...AND SOUTH OF OAHU. SKIES ARE OTHERWISE CLEAR TO SCATTERED IN THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. MOST OF THE BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE OLD FRONT...AS ALLUDED TO ABOVE...ARE WITHIN 75 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 27N134.5W TO 26N140W TO 22N148.5W TO 16.5N155.5W. SOME OF THE CLOUDINESS AROUND THE BIG ISLAND AND MAUI COUNTY HAD BEEN MORE DIRECTLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONT YESTERDAY AND LAST NIGHT. IN THE UPPER AIR ABOVE 25 THOUSAND FEET...THE AXIS OF A NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST ORIENTED TROUGH IS ALONG A LINE FROM 30N147W TO 24N154W TO JUST OVER OAHU TO 19N157W. THE SYSTEM APPEARS TO BE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. UNORGANIZED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FIRING ALONG THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE FAR SOUTH OF HAWAII. MOST OF THE CONVECTION IS OCCURRING FROM 05N TO 11N. $$ 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.