From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sat Oct 16 02:30:46 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 o9FIUjNe006154 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 02:30:46 +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 o9FFhbJ0022943; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:30:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3905157 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:30:33 -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 o9FIUWFD015306 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:30:32 -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 o9FIUPL3020223 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:30:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id A31ED40501A6; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:30:24 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101015183024.A31ED40501A6@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:30:24 -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 616 ATHW40 PHFO 151830 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1830 UTC FRI OCT 15 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1800 UTC OCTOBER 15 2010 HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS FAR NORTH OF THE ISLANDS WITH THE ASSOCIATED RIDGE ORIENTED EAST TO WEST ACROSS LATITUDE 35N. A STALLED AND DECAYING FRONTAL BOUNDARY SITS BETWEEN THE RIDGE AND THE ISLANDS WHILE STRETCHING FROM 150W TO 170W ALONG 29N. THE BOUNDARY...AND UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT...ARE CREATING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 26N TO 30N FROM 160W TO 170W. TRADE WINDS PRODUCED BY THE HIGH PRESSURE ARE MOVING LOW CLOUDS FROM EAST TO WEST ACROSS THE SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL CENTRAL PACIFIC AT 10 TO 20 MPH. SKY COVER IS PREDOMINANTLY SCATTERED WITH PATCHES OF BROKEN LOW CLOUDS ACROSS THE AREA. WATER VAPOR SHOWS A BROAD UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE CENTRAL PACIFIC WITH A WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW LOCATED OVER THE AFOREMENTIONED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR 28N 168W. THE TROUGH AND SUBTROPICAL JET ARE ALSO PRODUCING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR 15N 160W AND IN THE VICINITY OF 13N 140W. OVER THE ISLANDS...PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES CAN BE FOUND OVER WINDWARD AREAS OF KAUAI...OAHU AND MOLOKAI...AS WELL AS THE LOWER SLOPES OF EAST MAUI. THE BIG ISLAND HAS PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES OVER THE HILO AREA...THE WINDWARD SADDLE REGION...AND OVER THE KAU DISTRICT. THE REST OF THE STATE/S SKIES ARE CLEAR. $$ MORRISON +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.