From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Wed Sep 22 08:00:35 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 o8M00Ylw024645 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:00:34 +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 o8LITEiJ028356; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:00:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3518757 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:00:19 -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 o8M00J5o001570 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:00:19 -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 o8M00CtN011464 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:00:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id B7D78405002E; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:00:12 -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-1009210205 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: Message-ID: <20100922000012.B7D78405002E@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:00:12 -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 522 ATHW40 PHFO 220000 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0000 UTC WED SEP 22 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 2330 UTC SEPTEMBER 21 2010 SKIES ARE SUNNY TO PARTLY CLOUDY OVER MOST OF THE ALOHA STATE THIS EARLY AFTERNOON. ON THE OTHER HAND...BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS HAVE BEEN FORMING OVER THE MOUNTAIN SLOPES IN KAU...KONA...SOUTH KOHALA...WINDWARD NORTH KOHALA AND HAMAKUA ON THE BIG ISLAND AS OF BULLETIN TIME. LOW CEILINGS HAVE ALSO BEEN DEVELOPING ON THE NORTH- AND WEST-FACING SLOPES OF HALEAKALA IN EAST MAUI. LOW CLOUD MOTION IS FROM THE EAST TO EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH ACROSS THE ISLAND CHAIN. SCATTERED TO OCCASIONALLY BROKEN LOW CLOUDS...WITH EMBEDDED SHOWERS...EXIST IMMEDIATELY NORTH CLOCKWISE THROUGH SOUTH OF THE BIG ISLAND...AND JUST EAST OF MAUI. THESE ELEMENTS ARE REMNANTS FROM AN OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY. CONDITIONS ARE CLEAR TO SCATTERED ELSEWHERE IN THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. MOST OF THE REMNANT MOISTURE FROM THE OLD FRONT...AS ALLUDED TO ABOVE...IS FARTHER TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF THE BIG ISLAND...AND IS CURRENTLY WITHIN 85 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 26N135W TO 24N146.5W TO 19.5N153.5W. THE AXIS OF A WEAK NORTHEAST-TO-SOUTHWEST ORIENTED UPPER TROUGH... ABOVE 25 THOUSAND FEET...IS NEARLY STATIONARY ALONG A LINE FROM 30N146W TO 26.5N150W TO 23N158W TO JUST OVER THE KAUAI CHANNEL TO 20N160W. ANOTHER UPPER TROUGH...FAR NORTHWEST OF KAUAI AND ORIENTED NORTH TO SOUTH...HAS BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY. ITS AXIS IS ALONG A LINE FROM 30N170W TO 24N169W. AN UPPER RIDGE EXISTS BETWEEN THE TROUGHS...AND AN AREA OF BROKEN HIGH CLOUDS HAS FORMED ON THE SOUTHEAST FLANK OF THE RIDGE. MOST OF THIS CLOUDINESS IS LOCATED FROM 27N TO 33N BETWEEN 148W AND 158W. A WEAK VORTEX...OR COUNTERCLOCKWISE-ROTATING CIRCULATION...IS MORE THAN 500 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF HILO AND HAS BEEN MOVING WEST NEAR 10 MPH. THE FEATURE...IGNITING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...HAS SHOWN INCREASING ORGANIZATION OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. MORE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM IS POSSIBLE AS IT HEADS WEST. ALONG THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE...CONVECTION HAS BEEN FIRING FROM 08N TO 11N EAST OF 163W...AND FROM 06.5N TO 10N WEST OF 166W. $$ 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.