From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sat Oct 16 14:03:20 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 o9G63JlI011389 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:03:20 +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 o9G4007o028194; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:02:48 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3911954 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:02:48 -0500 Received: from relay05.cites.uiuc.edu (relay05.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.4.40]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9G62mnZ008236 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:02:48 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay05.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9G62fW4010098 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:02:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 7C91D40501A6; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:02:41 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101016060241.7C91D40501A6@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:02:41 -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 395 ATHW40 PHFO 160602 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0530 UTC SAT OCT 16 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0500 UTC OCTOBER 16 2010 A BROAD UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS HAS SPARKED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE ISLANDS THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN LOCATED ABOUT 175 MILES WEST OF KAUAI WITH TOPS NEAR 40 THOUSAND FEET. THE BROAD UPPER LEVEL TROUGH IS ALSO BRINGING HIGH CLOUDS UP AND OVER THE BIG ISLAND FROM THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF THE ISLANDS. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS ABOUT 585 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE BIG ISLAND WITH TOPS NEAR 46 THOUSAND FEET. SCATTERED CLOUDS ARE FOUND OVER KAUAI EARLY THIS EVENING...AND JUST A FEW CLOUDS ARE OVER NIIHAU. THIN HIGH CLOUDS ARE PASSING OVER NIIHAU AND KAUAI...BUT ARE NOT YET OBSCURING THE LOWER CLOUDS. ON OAHU...CLOUDS ARE CONCENTRATED OVER THE KOOLAU MOUNTAIN RANGE...WITH SCATTERED CLOUDS OVER THE WAIANAE RANGE. SCATTERED CLOUDS ARE OVER THE HALAWA VALLEY ON MOLOKAI...AND OVER THE INTERIOR OF LANAI. ON MAUI...BROKEN CLOUDS ARE FOUND OVER THE SLOPES OF THE WEST MAUI MOUNTAINS...THE CENTRAL VALLEY...AND MOST OF HALEAKALA. THE NORTH FACING SLOPES OF HALEAKALA FROM HOOKIPA BEACH PARK TO KEANAE HAVE THE FEWEST CLOUDS OVERHEAD...BUT ADDITIONAL CLOUDS ARE JUST OFFSHORE. ON THE BIG ISLAND...THE HEAVIEST CONCENTRATION OF CLOUDS IS OVER THE SOUTH AND NORTH KONA DISTRICTS. BROKEN LOW CLOUDS ARE FOUND OVER THE KAU DISTRICT. SCATTERED TO BROKEN LOW CLOUDS ARE FOUND ELSEWHERE ON THE BIG ISLAND LOWER SLOPES. $$ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.