From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sat Oct 2 20:00:41 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 o92C0dOU022318 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 20:00:40 +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 o9280RAj026873; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 07:00:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3705584 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 07:00:22 -0500 Received: from relay10.cites.uiuc.edu (relay10.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.10]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o92C0MD6012701 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 07:00:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay10.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o92C0GKt002847 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 07:00:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1BF4E4050032; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 07:00:16 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101002120016.1BF4E4050032@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 07:00:16 -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 467 ATHW40 PHFO 021200 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1200 UTC SAT OCT 02 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1130 UTC OCTOBER 02 2010 A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH CONTINUES TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE ISLANDS TOWARD THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST. OVERALL...LOW CLOUDS HAVE DECREASED SINCE LAST EVENING...THOUGH BROKEN CONDITIONS...WITH SOME EMBEDDED SHOWERS...ARE STILL OCCURRING OVER THE ISLES THIS EARLY MORNING. THE MOST CONCENTRATED LOW CLOUDINESS IS CURRENTLY LOCATED FROM THE KAIWI CHANNEL THROUGH MAUI COUNTY AND ONTO THE BIG ISLAND. CEILINGS STRETCH JUST NORTH AND SOUTH OF MAUI COUNTY...NORTH AND WEST OF THE BIG ISLAND...AND SOUTH OF OAHU. SKIES ARE CLEAR TO SCATTERED ELSEWHERE IN THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS...EXCEPT A BAND OF SHOWERS...ORIENTED EAST-NORTHEAST TO WEST-SOUTHWEST...HAS FORMED WITHIN 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAPE KUMUKAHI ON THE BIG ISLAND. LOW CLOUD MOVEMENT IS FROM THE EAST TO EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH ACROSS THE ALOHA STATE. ANOTHER SURFACE TROUGH IS NEARLY STATIONARY EAST AND NORTHEAST OF THE BIG ISLAND. THE CLOUDINESS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM HAS BECOME MORE DIFFUSE OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. AT THE MOMENT... THE CLOUD ELEMENTS THAT REMAIN ARE WITHIN 130 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 30N144.5W TO 24.5N149W TO 23.5N154.5W. IN THE UPPER AIR ABOVE 25 THOUSAND FEET...THE AXIS OF A TROUGH IS ALONG A LINE FROM 23N155W TO 19N156.5W TO 14N157W...WHICH IS JUST WEST OF THE BIG ISLAND. THE FEATURE HAS DRIFTED WEST OVER THE PAST SEVEN HOURS. A NEARLY STATIONARY UPPER RIDGE IS WEAKENING MORE THAN 500 MILES WEST OF KAUAI. THE AXIS OF THE RIDGE IS ROUGHLY ALONG A LINE FROM 22N168W TO 28N173W TO 31N175W. UNORGANIZED CONVECTION IS OCCURRING SOUTH OF HAWAII ALONG THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE...THOUGH ACTIVITY HAS DECREASED SINCE THE PREVIOUS BULLETIN. MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FIRING FROM 09N TO 14N BETWEEN 147W AND 168W...AND FROM 04N TO 12.5N WEST OF 168W. $$ 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.