From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Mon Oct 11 13:26:41 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 o9B5Qe48013698 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:26:41 +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 o9B51ulZ003879; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:26:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3831653 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:26:22 -0500 Received: from relay04.cites.uiuc.edu (relay04.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.5]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9B5QJj5005839 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:26:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay04.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9B5QDS1000585 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:26:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 113B3108B0001; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:26:12 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101011052613.113B3108B0001@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:26:12 -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 739 ATHW40 PHFO 110526 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0530 UTC MON OCT 11 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0500 UTC OCTOBER 11 2010 THE AREA OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST CLOUDS AND SHOWERS THAT MOVED ACROSS THE STATE SUNDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON IS AT THIS WRITING OVER AND SOUTH OF KAUAI AND MOVING WEST. THESE CLOUDS ARE LAYERED TO NEAR 16000 FEET. ALSO OVER AND NEAR KAUAI ARE SCATTERED TO BROKEN HIGH CLOUDS AT 35000 FEET. THESE HIGH CLOUDS...WHICH ARE ON THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF A SMALL UPPER LEVEL LOW CENTERED NEAR 23N162W...HAVE BEEN MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTHWEST. OVER OAHU...THERE ARE A HANDFUL OF CLOUD LINES RUNNING PARALLEL TO AND SOUTHWEST OF THE KOOLAU MOUNTAINS. THESE MOUNTAIN WAVE CLOUDS... WHICH USUALLY OCCUR WHEN THE TRADES ARE SWIFT AND THE ATMOSPHERE IS STABLE...ARE GOOD INDICATORS OF LOW LEVEL TURBULENCE. THE CLOUDS ARE STATIONARY WITH TOPS NEAR 5500 FEET. DOWN THE ISLAND CHAIN...MOLOKAI LANAI AND MAUI ARE FOR THE MOST PART CLEAR EXCEPT FOR AREAS OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST CLOUDS OVER HIGHER TERRAIN. CLOUD TOPS HERE ARE NEAR 4000 FEET WITH SOME UP TO 8500 FEET. A GOOD PORTION OF THE BIG ISLAND BELOW 8500 FEET IS COVERED WITH BROKEN CLOUDS. THE CLOUDS ARE RAPIDLY ON THE DECREASE HOWEVER...AS IS USUALLY THE CASE IN THE EVENING HOURS. THE GREATEST CLOUD COVER CAN BE SEEN OVER THE SOUTHERN END OF THE ISLAND. SKIES ABOVE 8500 FEET ARE CLEAR. EXCEPT FOR ALL OF THE CLOUDS AROUND KAUAI AND SOUTH OF OAHU...OCEAN COASTAL WATERS SURROUNDING THE ISLANDS ARE SITTING UNDER SCATTERED FAIR WEATHER CUMULUS CLOUDS. FURTHER AFIELD...THERE ARE TWO PATCHES OF BROKEN SHOWER-BEARING CLOUDS 100 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE BIG ISLAND AND 150 MILES NORTHEAST OF OAHU. ALL OF THE LOW CLOUDS OVER WATER ARE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 20 TO 25 MPH IN THE TRADE WINDS. OUT MANY HUNDRED MILES NORTHEAST AND SEVERAL HUNDRED MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE ISLANDS...THERE ARE NOTHING BUT LOW CLOUDS BELOW THE TRADE WIND SUBSIDENCE INVERSION. ASIDE FROM THE PATCHY HIGH CLOUDS OVER KAUAI...THERE ARE HIGH CLOUDS SOUTH OF A JETSTREAM RUNNING FROM 23N170W SOUTHEASTWARD TO 14N155W THEN NORTHEASTWARD TO 18N140W AND BEYOND. THESE HIGH CLOUDS ARE BEING BLOWN OFF THE TOPS OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE...ITCZ. THE ITCZ STRADDLES 10N WITH MOST OF THE 53000 FOOT HIGH THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF 162W. $$ CRAIG +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.