From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sat Sep 25 08:20:41 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 o8P0Ke0c029885 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:20:40 +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 o8O512Sv019208; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:20:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3578839 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:20:20 -0500 Received: from relay02.cites.uiuc.edu (relay02.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.4]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8P0KKa2000636 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:20:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay02.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8P0KDbi017435 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:20:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id C597A108B0001; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:20:13 -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-1009240205 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: Message-ID: <20100925002013.C597A108B0001@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:20:13 -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 049 ATHW40 PHFO 250020 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0030 UTC SAT SEP 25 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0000 UTC SEPTEMBER 25 2010 AN AREA OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS IS MOVING WEST ACROSS THE ISLANDS OF MAUI COUNTY AND IS POISED TO REACH OAHU WITHIN THE HOUR. IN THE MEANTIME...DAYTIME HEATING HAS INCREASED CLOUD COVER ACROSS THE BIG ISLAND. SCATTERED TO BROKEN LOW CLOUDS COVER WINDWARD BIG ISLAND SLOPES...WHILE BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS DOMINATE LEEWARD AND KAU SLOPES. KAUAI HAS SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS...WHILE SKY COVER ACROSS WINDWARD OAHU HAS BECOME BROKEN TO OVERCAST. MOLOKAI AND LANAI HAVE BROKEN LOW CLOUDS...WHILE LEEWARD HALEAKALA AND ALL WINDWARD WEST SLOPES ON MAUI HAVE BROKEN LOW CLOUDS. SKIES ARE MUCH CLEARER IMMEDIATELY UPWIND FROM MAUI...SO THAT ISLAND SHOULD SEE CLEARER SKIES SHORTLY. SATELLITE LOOP SHOWS THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE EXTENDS ROUGHLY THROUGH 30N140W...26N160W AND 26N170W. TRADE FLOW ALONG THE SOUTHERN FLANK OF THE RIDGE IS RATHER SLUGGISH WEST OF 150W...WITH LOW CLOUDS MOVING WEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH ACROSS THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. FARTHER TO THE NORTH...A 90 TO 150 MILE WIDE BAND OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST LAYERED CLOUDS EXTENDS NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 41N140W TO 35N150W TO 32N160W TO 32N170W TO 33N180W. MARKING A FRONTAL BOUNDARY...THIS CLOUD BAND IS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH ALONG 40N. MOVEMENT IS MORE TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH AT 10 MPH OR LESS WEST OF 160W. TO THE SOUTH...ISOLATED CUMULONIMBUS...CB...MARK THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE WITHIN A 120 MILE WIDE ARC FROM 08N140W TO 08N160W TO 09N160W TO 12N170W TO 09N180W. A WEAK TROPICAL DISTURBANCE NEAR 13.2N163.2W IS MOVING WEST SOUTHWEST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. A SINGLE CB PERSISTS JUST NORTHEAST OF THE CENTER OF CIRCULATION. $$ 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.