From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sat Sep 25 13:36:03 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 o8P5ZtAW024132 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:36:00 +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 o8P50RBU019148; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:35:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3582203 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:35:35 -0500 Received: from relay03.cites.uiuc.edu (relay03.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.4.69]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8P5ZXmt023167 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:35:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay03.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8P5ZQug001385 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:35:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 2CF6B108B0001; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:35:25 -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-1009240249 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: Message-ID: <20100925053526.2CF6B108B0001@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:35:25 -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 017 ATHW40 PHFO 250535 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0530 UTC SAT SEP 25 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0500 UTC SEPTEMBER 25 2010 AN AREA OF BROKEN LOW CLOUDS IS ALMOST PAST THE CENTRAL ISLANDS AT SUNSET. THE BULK OF THE CLOUDS NOW RESIDE OVER THE LEEWARD WATERS OF OAHU TO MAUI. THEY GAVE THE CENTRAL ISLANDS SOME SPOTTY SHOWERS EARLIER TODAY. THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHWEST... FURTHER AWAY FROM THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. IN ITS WAKE...LOW CLOUD COVERAGE HAS DIMINISHED TO SCATTERED TO LOCALLY BROKEN. THE BROKEN COVERAGE PERTAINS TO THE WINDWARD AND MOUNTAIN AREAS OF THE SMALLER ISLANDS. THE KONA DISTRICT AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF THE BIG ISLAND SOUTH OF KONA IS HEAVILY OVERCAST THIS PAST HOUR. ELSEWHERE OF THE BIG ISLAND...THE SLOPES ABOVE HILO...THE PUNA DISTRICT AND THE KAU SLOPES ARE GENERALLY CLOUDY AS WELL. SOME OF THESE CLOUDS HAVE SPREAD INTO THE ADJACENT WATERS SOUTH AND WEST OF KILAUEA VOLCANO TO SOUTH POINT. THE REST OF THE BIG ISLAND IS GENERALLY FAIR. WEATHER RADAR LOOP IS DETECTING WIDELY DISPERSED SHOWERS MOVING ACROSS THE WINDWARD WATERS. MANY WOULD DISSIPATE UPON REACHING THE WINDWARD AND MOUNTAIN AREAS OF THE SMALLER ISLANDS. NO SHOWERS ARE DETECTED OVER THE LEEWARD WATERS OF THE SMALLER ISLANDS...AND THERE ARE NO ORGANIZED LOW CLOUDS WITHIN 300 MILES UPWIND OF THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. THE LOW LEVEL WIND FLOW IS FROM EAST TO WEST ACROSS THE WINDWARD WATERS AND NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST OVER THE LEEWARD WATERS...BLOWING AT 15 TO 20 MPH. ABOUT 670 MILE SOUTHWEST OF OAHU...IS A SMALL CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH A LOW. A SHORT DISTANCE TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE LOW...IS A 300 MILE WIDE BAND OF CLOUDS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. THIS BAND MARKS THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE /ITCZ/ WHICH EXTENDS FROM 08N160W TO 08N140W. $$ LAU +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.