From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Tue Sep 28 13:19:48 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 o8S5Jkqt027471 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:19:47 +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 o8S512XJ025335; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:19:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3627958 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:19:11 -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 o8S5JA1C027820 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:19:10 -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 o8S5J4Hv001178 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:19:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id E8B034050030; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:19:03 -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=1 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-1005130000 definitions=main-1009270298 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: Message-ID: <20100928051903.E8B034050030@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:19:03 -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 088 ATHW40 PHFO 280518 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0530 UTC TUE SEP 28 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0500 UTC SEPTEMBER 28 2010 THE MOST NOTICEABLE CLOUD FEATURE ACROSS THE CENTRAL NORTH PACIFIC IS A 200 TO 300 MILE WIDE BAND OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST LAYERED CLOUDS NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 35N140W TO 30N144W. THIS BAND EXTENDS FARTHER TO THE SOUTHWEST AS A BAND OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS NORTH OF A LINE THROUGH 26N150W...24N160W...23N170W AND 23N175W. MARKING A FRONTAL BOUNDARY...THIS CLOUD BAND IS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST SLOWLY EAST OF 150W...AND DRIFTING TOWARD THE SOUTH ALONG THAT PORTION WEST OF 150W. THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE CLOUD BAND IS ABOUT 115 MILES NORTH OF THE ISLAND OF KAUAI. SATELLITE LOOP SHOWS RATHER SLUGGISH EAST TO WEST FLOW ACROSS THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS THIS EVENING...WITH VERY LITTLE IN THE WAY OF LOW CLOUDS OVER LOCAL WATERS. MAUKA SECTIONS OF KAUAI AND OAHU HAVE SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS...WHILE MOLOKAI AND LANAI HAVE LINGERING BROKEN LOW CLOUDS ACROSS MAUKA AREAS. BROKEN LOW CLOUDS COVER ALL HALEAKALA SLOPES ON MAUI AS WELL AS LEEWARD SLOPES OF WEST MAUI. BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS COVER ALL BIG ISLAND SLOPES...BUT THIS CLOUD COVER IS BEGINNING TO SLOUGH OFF ACROSS LEEWARD WATERS AS EVENING COOLING SETS IN. TO THE SOUTH...BROKEN TO OVERCAST LAYERED CLOUDS WITH EMBEDDED ISOLATED CUMULONIMBUS...CB...COVER SKIES NORTH OF A LINE FROM 07N140W TO 09N160W TO 04N180W...AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 13N140W TO 15N160W TO 17N165W TO 09N180W. MOST OF THE CB ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS CLOUD AREA BETWEEN 151W AND 175W. WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS AN UPPER LOW CENTERED NEAR 20N166W...ABOUT 600 MILES WEST OF THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALONG THE EASTERN FLANK OF THIS UPPER LOW IS PUSHING BROKEN HIGH CLOUDS AS FAR NORTH AS 20N BETWEEN 162W AND 165W. BREAKAWAY HIGH CLOUD ELEMENTS GET PUSHED OVER THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AS WELL FROM TIME TO TIME. $$ 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.