From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sun Oct 17 08:30:49 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 o9H0UmW2030214 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 08:30:49 +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 o9G400VL028194; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:30:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3918328 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:30:30 -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 o9H0UU7C024284 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:30:30 -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 o9H0UNss019457 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:30:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 975B4108B0002; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:30:23 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101017003023.975B4108B0002@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:30:23 -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 048 ATHW40 PHFO 170030 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0030 UTC SUN OCT 17 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0000 UTC OCTOBER 17 2010 AS OF 2 PM...THE SMALLER ISLANDS HAD BROKEN CLOUDS OVER MOUNTAINS AND CLEAR SKIES OR SCATTERED CLOUDS ELSEWHERE. UPWIND OR EAST OF MOLOKAI AND OAHU WAS AN AREA OF BROKEN SHOWER-BEARING CLOUDS MOVING TO THE WEST. FAR FEWER SHOWERY CLOUDS WERE DETECTED UPWIND OF THE OTHER ISLANDS. THE BIG ISLAND WAS COVERED BY BROKEN TO OVERCAST CLOUDS...EXCEPT FOR THE SUMMITS OF MAUNA LOA AND MAUNA KEA...A NARROW GAP BETWEEN THE TWO VOLCANOES OVER THE SADDLE...AND THE KAU DESERT WHERE SKIES WERE MOSTLY CLEAR. MOST OF THE CLOUDS OVER LAND WERE STATIONARY WHILE THOSE OVER WATER WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 20 MPH. CLOUD TOPS AS CALCULATED FROM CLOUD TOP TEMPERATURES WERE AT OR BELOW 10000 FEET. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWED AN UPPER LEVEL LOW CENTERED WEST OF HAWAII NEAR 22N172W. THE LOW WAS TRIGGERING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12N TO 23N BETWEEN 163W AND 175W...AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS FROM 26N AND 30N BETWEEN 162W AND 171W. THE CLOSEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 300 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF KAUAI. A SECOND SMALLER LOW WAS LOCATED FAR NORTH OF THE BIG ISLAND NEAR 28N154W. SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE FIRING OFF IMMEDIATELY EAST OF THE LOW CENTER. THIN HIGH CLOUDS WERE MOVING OVER THE ISLANDS IN THE SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW SOUTHEAST OF THE TWO LOWS AND A BROAD UPPER LEVEL TROUGH CONNECTING THE TWO. THE CIRRUS CLOUDS WERE NEAR 24000 FEET. BOTH THE LOWS AND THE TROUGH WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. $$ 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.