From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sun Sep 26 13:49:09 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 o8Q5n7Se023002 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:49:08 +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 o8P50Rjn019148; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:48:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3592199 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:48:52 -0500 Received: from relay07.cites.uiuc.edu (relay07.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.4.73]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8Q5mloC028177 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:48:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay07.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8Q5merP008246 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:48:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 93DB14050020; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:48:40 -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-1009250239 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: Message-ID: <20100926054840.93DB14050020@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:48:40 -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 941 ATHW40 PHFO 260548 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0530 UTC SUN SEP 26 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0500 UTC SEPTEMBER 26 2010 SATELLITE LOOP SHOWS THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE HAS BEEN PUSHED SOUTH OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS SUCH THAT THE WESTERN LIMB OF THE RIDGE LIES JUST EAST OF THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS THIS EVENING. FLOW AT LOW CLOUD LEVEL IS SLUGGISH ACROSS THE ISLANDS...MAINLY TOWARD THE WEST AT 10 MPH OR LESS. SKIES ACROSS KAUAI AND OAHU HAVE SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS TO CLEAR SKIES. MOLOKAI HAS BROKEN LOW CLOUDS ACROSS ITS EASTERN THIRD WHILE MAUI HAS BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS ACROSS WINDWARD HALEAKALA SLOPES AND ACROSS WINDWARD WEST SLOPES. CLOUD COVER IS A BIT MORE EXTENSIVE ACROSS THE BIG ISLAND...WHERE BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS COVER ALL WINDWARD SLOPES AS WELL AS KONA SLOPES FROM MILOLII TO KAILUA-KONA. A RAGGED 120 MILE WIDE BAND OF BROKEN LOW CLOUDS EXTENDS NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 35N140W TO 31N150W TO 24N164W TO 26N173W. MARKING AN OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY...THIS CLOUD BAND IS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST SLOWLY NEAR 140W BUT IS NEARLY STATIONARY ELSEWHERE. BROKEN STABLE LOW CLOUDS LIE NORTH OF A LINE FROM 16N140W TO 15N145W TO 19N154W AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 28N140W TO 22N154W. ELEMENTS OF THIS CLOUD AREA BREAK AWAY FROM TIME TO TIME AND AFFECT THE EASTERN ISLANDS. TO THE SOUTH...BROKEN LAYERED CLOUDS AND ISOLATED CUMULONIMBUS...CB...LIE WITHIN A RAGGED 120 MILE WIDE BAND NORTH OF A LINE FROM 05N140W TO 03N165W TO 06N175W TO 10N180W. A WEAK TROPICAL DISTURBANCE NEAR 11N169W HAS ISOLATED CB WITHIN 90 MILES NORTH THROUGH WEST OF CENTER. THIS DISTURBANCE IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. $$ 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.