From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Thu Oct 7 20:00:34 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 o97C0Xhn002868 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 20:00:34 +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 o9750ata026480; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:00:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3784399 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:00:18 -0500 Received: from relay01.cites.uiuc.edu (relay01.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.4.23]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o97C0IUA001831 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:00:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay01.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o97C0C0F023430 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:00:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id F2FD94050175; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:00:11 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101007120011.F2FD94050175@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:00:11 -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 270 ATHW40 PHFO 071200 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1200 UTC THU OCT 07 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1130 UTC OCTOBER 07 2010 SKIES ARE PREDOMINANTLY CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY ACROSS THE ISLAND CHAIN. LOW CEILINGS ARE MAINLY OCCURRING OVER COASTAL AND UPSLOPE SECTIONS OF WINDWARD AND LEEWARD BIG ISLAND...THE WEST-FACING SLOPES OF HALEAKALA IN EAST MAUI...AND THE KOOLAU RANGE ON OAHU. LOW CLOUD MOVEMENT IS FROM THE EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH STATEWIDE. CONDITIONS ARE GENERALLY CLEAR TO SCATTERED IN THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS...THOUGH PATCHES OF BROKEN LOW CLOUDINESS EXIST NORTH AND SOUTH OF OAHU AND MAUI COUNTY...AND WEST OF THE BIG ISLAND AND NIIHAU. THE LEADING EDGE OF A WEAK FRONT IS AROUND 420 MILES NORTH OF KAUAI THIS EARLY MORNING...AND HAS BEEN MOVING SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST NEAR 10 MPH OVER THE PAST SEVEN HOURS. MOST OF THE BROKEN TO OCCASIONALLY SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS WITH THE BOUNDARY ARE CURRENTLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM 30N153.5W TO 28N160W TO 25.5N170W TO 25.5N180. A SURFACE TROUGH IS 625 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF HONOLULU AND HAS BEEN MOVING WEST TO WEST-SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. CONVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH THE SYSTEM HAS DIMINISHED SINCE LAST EVENING. MOST OF THE REMAINING SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED FROM 16.5N TO 21N BETWEEN 165W AND 168W. UNORGANIZED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE FAR SOUTH OF HAWAII HAVE INTENSIFIED OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS. THE ACTIVITY IS FOUND FROM 08N TO 11N BETWEEN 147W AND 165W...AND FROM 07N TO 12N WEST OF 172W. SOME OF THE CELLS HAVE BEEN CLIMBING TO 50 THOUSAND FEET. $$ 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.